Logos Marketplace
Selling or exhancing resources within Logos with other users for free or with a certain price tag. Users get credit or a different book to your liking or ...
I own hundreds of resources I don't need. Some of them are in Spanish. Why not selling them within the Logos or selling them back to Logos in exchange for a credit or other books.
Logos marketplace.
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Your idea seems like an attractive one .... to customers. Especially since 'we' all have books we either don't need or want from the packages.
But it seems the publishers (contracts) and Faithlife (needs to make money) might not be so amenable ... a digital license is purposely not so fungible as a real book. I think it's instructive that bookstores that sold new books, didn't sell used books ... the used-books store was down the street. Interestingly, in our town, the new-books store died; the used-books store survives.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Renold Burke said:
Selling or exhancing resources within Logos with other users for free or with a certain price tag.
There are Facebook groups for such things, and you can also find listings on eBay. I encourage you to check it out!
I love the idea of making it easier, especially with an exchange in Logos. It's pretty clumsy right now - you have to contact CS and fork over $20 transfer fee. And apparently, they sometimes pull the plug and say you can't transfer licenses....though I haven't found what sort of policy they have - it seems pretty capricious.
But it's unlikely to happen, because most of the books someone purchases are part of a package, or have been purchased with a discount through dynamic pricing - your library is all locked up as a single unit. There's also no incentive for publishers to encourage reselling; it'll just cut into their margin.
Great idea, but sadly doubt it'll ever come about.
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DMB said:
I think it's instructive that bookstores that sold new books, didn't sell used books ... the used-books store was down the street. Interestingly,
Unless you're Powell's (Portland - I don't know about Chicago).
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
Unless you're Powell's (Portland - I don't know about Chicago).
I guess they'd be unusual maybe. Of course Amazon went big-time with 'both' (I suppose they take a cut on the used-guys). And then the used-books prices went sky high .... I used to get really good deals at Abe's.
OT: We stopped in Beaverton the other day ... old times at the Japanese supermarket.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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DMB said:
I used to get really good deals at Abe's.
Before Amazon bought them out?
DMB said:We stopped in Beaverton the other day
My brother lived there for many years. His mailbox on the other side of the street was in Hillsboro.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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DMB said:
I used to get really good deals at Abe's.
EDIT: I think I unintentionally broke a forum rule with my original post.
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MJ. Smith said:
Before Amazon bought them out?
I did not know that! December 2008. Apparently a brooha among book sellers.
And yes ... my hardcopy purchases sort of dribbled out with L4.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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