http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/18/media/amazon-kindle-unlimited/index.html
EDT: I see this is posted in the Vyrso forum...
Are you thinking Logos or Vyrso?
A few years back I suggested a subscription service to Logos. I don't think Logos was very keen on the idea at the time. But later we saw the addition of product rentals.
Yes, but if you read the fine print, you actually have to read the book you download. I suppose it's similar to 'all you can eat' where they force you to lick your plate.
I'm hopeful they have all my favorites. In between renting and a subscription, I may just have lock myself in. Ah gee.
It's probably too early. We don't know if amazon will be able to make it work. And it's only a small subset of thier library.
Yes, but if you read the fine print, you actually have to read the book you download.
I didn't see that in there, and how would they enforce it anyway? Give you a quiz on the contents?
I didn't see that in there, and how would they enforce it anyway?
You do understand that this is "tongue in cheek" Denise who wrote this, right? [:)]
I don't think the major academic publishers will agree with a subscription based model.
Take for example the NA28, published by the German Bible Society. The GBS knows that anyone who works or studies at a university where the Biblical languages are thought will buy the NA28. So what's the incentive for them to agree with a flat fee payment for every user (say 1 dollar a month), when they know that if they don't most people will buy their new editions anyway? For publishers of reference works that are standard works that will sell anyway (like the Anchor-Yale Bible Dictionary, like the major commentary series, etc) there is no incentive to agree with a flat fee based subscription model.
Now a non flat fee subscription model might work. Logos is actually is doing this already. For example the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) can be rented. The prices for renting are like 1/30 of the non-discount price on the website. But why would anyone use it?
Lets say you have the NICOT/NICNT series ($1700), the EEC ($749), and the Hermeneia and Continental Commentaries ($1380). At 1/30 of that price a month you would pay $3829 / 30 = $127 a month or $1270 a year. That's a lot of money for just renting. And after those 30 months you have spend thousands of dollars, an you have to keep paying to be able to use the commentaries. For most of us, commentaries are a long time investment, and we plan to use them for more than 30 months. Why would anyone rent them, if getting a loan or a payment plan means you pay about the same amount and get ownership? Only when you need a work for a really short time (a few months) renting would be interesting.
If 3 major commentary series will cost 127$ a month, consider how much all of works that Logos offers would cost.
I don't think the major academic publishers will agree with a subscription based model. Take for example the NA28, published by the German Bible Society....
Take for example the NA28, published by the German Bible Society....
You did notice, didn't you, that I posted this suggestion on the Vyrso forum. The only way it would make any sense to buy a subscription to "read all you want" would be if it were the cheapo "just for reading" books. Not the academic and reference books published in Logos format.
