The Story of Civilization

DURANT, William & DURANT, Ariel. The Story of Civilization. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

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Jeremy Gunter

Yes! This is an essential addition to anyone interested in reading some of the most influential writings on history, and I'd love to have Durrant's "Story of Civilization" anthology in Logos.

Jeremy Gunter

@Rick Mansfield (Logos), this request is about 5 years old. Would you mind providing an update? I'm not sure if this is a publisher that's hard to work with.

Rick Mansfield (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1373002#Comment_1373002

This is a Simon & Schuster title. Thus far, we have not been able to establish a partnership with them. But we continue to reach out to them.

Thomas Glen Leo

This is odd - and, I hope, promising. I had searched this set repeatedly in the past, and found that two search results that appeared to be volumes 8 and 11 in this series were just broken links, and not real (see my June 26th comment elsewhere in this forum to that effect). But, within the last few days, I have been able to purchase volumes 8 and 11, and I now own them for real and can open them. So I now own volumes 7 (which I had bought long ago), 8 and 11.

These may be artifacts of old licensing arrangements, but I wonder how these can be currently purchasable without the whole set being available. Logos, perhaps banging on the publisher's door one more time, over this set in particular, would get results!

Rick Mansfield (Logos)

@Thomas Glen Leo, this won't be a satisfying answer, but briefly: we don't have an actual contract with Simon and Schuster. The books we have from Durant are coming via an ebook distributor (these aren't Logos editions). We have just about zero control of what comes through those ebook feeds—everything there is automated. Ideally, I'd like to see us sign with Simon and Schuster so that we can license all books in this series and make Logos Editions out of them. This is our ultimate goal in this situation. We're trying.

Thomas Glen Leo

Thanks, Rick! I will keep an eye on this resource and hope for the best…. I do mean to read this set in the not-distant future, and I am so over reading on the Kindle! I aspire to do all my reading in Logos, where I have very well-organized notebooks tied to the books I've read, and where the reading experience is a ton better than either Kindle on its Windows app or on its own hardware devices.