Discounts available for e-books that you already own hardcopies of?
I hate to spend double for something: does any one know if discounts are available on e-books if you already own the physical book? Maybe there is a thread on this already (I didn't see one), but I can't be the first to ask this question.
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That would be nice, but the answer is no. Just like Amazon isn't going to give me a discount for buying another copy of a book I already have in my library. If you buy a resource for Logos that you already have a hard copy of, you now have two copies of it.
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They are all less expensive than print copies, much more usable and in essence a different edition. They can't burn up in a fire, get water damage, get lost... I'm not implying that you are complaining, but I have never understood anyone not seeing what a GREAT deal Logos is. With the search capabilities it is like having all the authors in your collection available to answer any question they might have an answer on. The Logos guys definitely have earned every penny they make in my view. Sell your print editions on eBay and you can probably make up more than the cost of the logos edition. The ones I can't sell I donate to a local christian college library or our public library.
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Gary O'Neal said:
That would be nice, but the answer is no. Just like Amazon isn't going to give me a discount for buying another copy of a book I already have in my library. If you buy a resource for Logos that you already have a hard copy of, you now have two copies of it.
You could donate the hard copy to a Bible College or Seminary library. They would put the resource to work, and you get a nice tax deduction (in the US at least). You also have the satisfaction of knowing that those resources will not be wasted by taking up space on your book shelf.
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Some books come with a CD with a license to an e-copy of that book.
However, publishers (and the owners of copyrights) are often nervous about ebooks undercutting sales of physical books. Ebooks don't degenerate like paper books. I may have to buy my favorite copy of a novel 3 times if I read it too much (not a far fetched situation given the quality of paperback bindings these days). In electronic format this degradation doesn't happen (save for data loss). A used ebook doesn't lose its value like a used paper book.
I would love if there were discounts for buying ebooks that I already owned, however, if I were to turn around and sell the paper copy after I received the discounted ebook I would potentially undercut one royalty sale of that book to someone else.
So, convince a publisher that these types of concerns aren't valid and that it will make them more money to offer this kind of discount and you will be a very popular person around here!
Prov. 15:23
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Kevin Becker said:
I would love if there were discounts for buying ebooks that I already owned, however, if I were to turn around and sell the paper copy after I received the discounted ebook I would potentially undercut one royalty sale of that book to someone else.
I see this as similar to the new practice with DVDs. My son had me buy a Blue-ray over Christmas for him. It came with a DVD, a Blue-ray, AND a digital copy, you can download to iTunes.
So would it make sense that in our near future, ALL BOOKS are sold as ONE licensed item, with three means of accessing them? A paper copy;, a digital copy - meaning iPhone; and a computer copy, meaning Logos 4.
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Dan Sheppard said:
I see this as similar to the new practice with DVDs. My son had me buy a Blue-ray over Christmas for him. It came with a DVD, a Blue-ray, AND a digital copy, you can download to iTunes.
So would it make sense that in our near future, ALL BOOKS are sold as ONE licensed item, with three means of accessing them? A paper copy;, a digital copy - meaning iPhone; and a computer copy, meaning Logos 4.
The movie studios have realized that this sort of added value is a selling point; hopefully the publishing companies adopt this type of strategy more widely (some Fortress titles come with Libronix CDs in their back covers. I know that Eisenbrauns includes pdfs on CD with some of their books)
Prov. 15:23
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