"DEALS" FLIP-FLOP AND PASSING LOGOS ON TO MY HEIRS

Mark J. Erickson · 2025-02-12T18:13:03+00:00

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When I was in seminary and then, a young pastor, my only option for books was buying the physical books. I probably have 10,000 of them. However, as soon as some collections could be purchased on CDs, I bought the ones I could. (Some are no longer accessible or are available in package deals if I want to buy them again.) We got by living frugally. Now, as a retired pastor, I also have about 6000 titles on LOGOS and have the finances to purchase more, but my wife doesn't like me buying more books, and I feel that I need to honor her concerns.

My two points: Firstly, could you think about inverting the specials or offering some enhanced financing so that younger students of the Bible could purchase significant works earlier on in their careers and can therefore make use of them for a longer time? And secondly, how can we pass on our LOGOS libraries to younger family members or close friends, sparing them at least some expenses as they develop their libraries?

I have really appreciated the breadth and depth of study over the years, and the wonderful access and ease of purchasing and using your product.

Sincere thanks,

MJE

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John Kaess

I started a discussion on the old forums several years ago Logos' absurd policy about passing my Logos Library on to an heir. I've spent almost $20,000 on about 7.900 resources over 25+ years. I have asked repeatedly what the rationale for their policy about transferring my license to an heir upon my death and have never once gotten a reply from Logos. My conclusion is that they have no reasonable rationale. I don't want to sell my license, I don't want to break it up and dispose of resources, I'm not looking to make a dime. I just want my heir to have my complete library unencumbered. As it stands now, last I checked, you can transfer your license in a will, but then the library is dead. it can never change hands again. I would like my son to be able to pass along this library to his son (or daughter) just like I can do with my library of physical books. It's my belief that most Logos users look at their Logos libraries the same way they do as their physical libraries and haven't seriously considered that all these resources and features can never be passed along except 1 single time, period. My good will towards Logos and all I've learned and achieved with it is become tarnished now that I am retired and thinking about what will happen to this great, powerful tool and all my resources.

Vlad

Ownership of a digital asset such as a library of Logos resources is exercised by the credentials to the account with this asset. So, just pass your credentials to your heir, and then he/she can log in and change the email and password in this account to his/her own credentials. This was discussed in this forum, and it seems that if such scenario is forbidden by the terms of use, this is a fault of the terms (i.e. "abuse of authority" or so).