Logos Owners' Exchange -- a good idea?

David Medici

Has Logos given thought to creating an "Exchange" -- a kind of Logos eBay -- where Logos users could sell their books to other Logos users? I would assume that users sometimes buy books that they then discover they either do not want or do not use. Similarly, I would assume some Logos users would like to be able to purchase books at a discount. Creating an exchange would enable both parties to connect and grow their libraries accordingly. Logos would transfer ownership from one user to another (and perhaps facilitate the transaction?).

George Somsel

Has Logos given thought to creating an "Exchange" -- a kind of Logos eBay -- where Logos users could sell their books to other Logos users? I would assume that users sometimes buy books that they then discover they either do not want or do not use. Similarly, I would assume some Logos users would like to be able to purchase books at a discount. Creating an exchange would enable both parties to connect and grow their libraries accordingly. Logos would transfer ownership from one user to another (and perhaps facilitate the transaction?).

It sounds as though you are recommending basically that Logos consider committing suicide.  While there are occasions when one purchases a work which in retrospect is determined to be undesirable (I purchased Smith's Bible Dictionary thinking it had signed articles by some heavy hitters of past scholarship and a book on the virgin birth that I was thinking was J Gresham Machen's well-known work on the subject though it wasn't).  Logos will take back books that you don't want in the first month.  Consider that digital works don't wear out or get outdated in the same sense that a car does.  You can go to a dealer and purchase a used car, but that is an older model which has undergone some wear and tear.  Such helps the car dealer by providing an avenue for the buyer to dispose of the old to be able to purchase the new, but it wouldn't work that way with digital books.