Finally!! Now there's just one more thing...

This was a loooooooooooooong time coming, but it's finally here.

These family packs are a great idea. I will eventually purchase one, perhaps at level 5. However, as wonderful as these are, there is still something that needs to be addressed. In the past, I've advocated for high ticket items such as muti-volume commentaries to be made available for collective purchase. In other words, a virtual collective of x number of individuals (5, 10, 15?) would "chip in" on the purchase price of NICOT/NT, for instance, and get full use and access. The long-standing view of encyclopedias and similar resources is that they are made to be collectively read. Prior to the digital age, the primary market of products such as AYB & AYBD was public, university, and seminary libraries, with the expectation being that dozens and hundreds of people would avail themselves of access. When the digital age hit, the single-user concept raised its ugly head. I get it. I understand why...digital is subject to massive reproduction abuse. So, to avoid that boogey man, publishers and their ilk (hey there, FL! ) decided to buck the abuse onto the consumer. Make no mistake...the single user EULAs of years past were abusive. Understandable, but abusive.

Anyway, times change, markets mature, and FL has managed to wrangle a way of offering these family packs. Cheers to FL!!!!  But, happy as I am, my joy is limited. I am firmly of the opinion that my family should be able to access my AYB and AYBD, and the myriad of other very expensive high ticket items I have in my extraordinarily pricey Logos Bible library. My idea of a "collective purchase" of high ticket resources dovetails pretty well with these new family packs. Tbh, I feel like if I were to purchase a level 5 pack (or possibly a level 6?), then my full library should be available to those who are enrolled in my family pack unit. And let's be clear: not only have I read less than 5% of what I have in my library, but I am pretty certain that no one in my family unit will read even 5% of what I have read. My suggestion is NOT about "taking the publishers to the cleaners". Rather, it is about making my massive Logos resource purchases bear some fruit rather than being the equivalent of virtual tchotchkes on a virtual shelf. In the end, this is about allowing customers the dignity to rise above the epithet of "criminal" just because they want to see their ginormous investment have some actual benefits for their loved ones.