I am trying to decide whether getting The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.) on Community Pricing would duplicate what I already have: Charles Spurgeon Collection (86 vols.)?
is there a comparison table?
Any sermons from The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.) are "missing" in 20 years of The Sword and Trowel?
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I am trying to decide whether getting The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.) on Community Pricing would duplicate what I already have: Charles Spurgeon Collection (86 vols.)? is there a comparison table? Any sermons from The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.) are "missing" in 20 years of The Sword and Trowel?
There's no "book" overlap between them. Thanks to a collabarative effort with Ages Software, everything in The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.) has existed in a Logos format for many many years. The CP posting is a project to rescan and update those volumes (the prior offering used Ages Software scans - no comments please) at no charge to owners of the Ages Software Libronix version to correct frequent scanning/OCR errors amd give them more robust functionality like other Logos-developed material.
The Charles Spurgeon Collection (86 vols.)? was a Logos project a few years ago that supplemented the 63 volume sermon series with the rest of Spurgeon's works that had been republished by Pilgrim Publications. There is some overlap in that some of the other books consist of sermons taken from the 63 volumes of sermons and gathered together based on topic or other unifying characteristic; Farm Sermons would be such an example. But most of the 86 volume collection is original material, some extremely well known and praised (Commenting and Commentaries, Lectures to My Students, The Treasury of David, and Morning and Evening most notably). The Sword and the Trowel has of some historical value and makes for good devotional reading but does not contain material found in the sermon volumes (except maybe an occassional small excerpt or two).
placed a bid @ $75, but wonder why Logos did not expand the scale further down?
I'm not sure how they determine the initial scale but if we get enough bids at the lower end of the scale then it is likely to change just as it has for other projects.
I would guess that it may relate to the fact that so many people already have the Spurgeon Sermon collection from Ages. It was one of Ages most popular products, and the one of the first things I bought beyond my basic package some 10 or 15 years ago. These people would not need to buy the upgrade, thus greatly reducing the number of sales. That would require higher bids to make it profitable. Just a guess on my part.
"The CP posting is a project to rescan and update those volumes (the prior offering used Ages Software scans - no comments please) at no charge to owners of the Ages Software Libronix version..."
So for owners of the Ages/Libronix version (not to mention 86 vol collection), should get this gratis, or will that come via automatic update? Let us know. Thanks, Randal!
Good things come to those who read the entire posting! [:$] Answered my own question. Thanks for posting on this.
placed a bid @ $75, but wonder why Logos did not expand the scale further down? I would guess that it may relate to the fact that so many people already have the Spurgeon Sermon collection from Ages. It was one of Ages most popular products, and the one of the first things I bought beyond my basic package some 10 or 15 years ago. These people would not need to buy the upgrade, thus greatly reducing the number of sales. That would require higher bids to make it profitable. Just a guess on my part.
I prefer to see this as a pre-pub rather than CP. Logos could offer it as a pre-pub and give current owners a substantial discount for the upgrade rather than making it free. I would be willing to pay $50-75 for the upgrade.
As it is, it will likely never get off the ground, just like the Princeton journal CP posting, because the price has been set too low by initial bidders. Setting teh price to substantially lower threshold than the amount intially proposed/suggestion by Logos raises the quantity of bidders required to meet production costs to a level that is often unlikely to be reached.
I think the Spurgeon sermon set would be a great selection for Logos to do a show-me presentation. By "show-me presentation" I mean for Logos to perhaps prepare a video demonstrating how much effort has to be invested to get a book from raw form, or PDF, to fully functional Logos digital content. That would have to be done without revealing any trade secrets, of course. These may be public domain works, but the cost savings from not paying royalties for copyrighted material doesn't reduce the cost to generate functional Logos digital content so significantly to reduce the price for these books to only a little over $1 per volume. I still have these 63 volumes in print form too, and I would not even think about letting them go for so little as $1.15 per volume.
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