Now that print media and magazines are making a resurgence (I was in a local B&N recently and the magazine racks had tripled in size and length,) I wonder if Faithlife will think about bringing BSM back?
I miss BSM.
Was Bible Study Magazine available previously for purchase at places like B&N? Or was it only from direct purchase from Logos?
That could potentially be a way to advertise Logos - if you bought a paper copy of the magazine you could also get the digital version of it added to your library for free.
Another interesting thing I think might have potential is if they started digital subscriptions for magazines and journals - not like the Galaxie journal subscription where you're just renting it, but where the magazine/journal would be added to your Logos Library (for keeps!) when the new issues come out - just like you could subscribe to a physical copy in the mail, so too you could subscribe to the digital copy for Logos. Bible Study Magazine would be a good one to start out with to see if there's interest, as well as to figure out the best way to go about doing it.
Not to my knowledge. I used to subscribe straight from Faithlife but the print and digital were sold separately. The digital was very far behind the print too. It would take months for the digital to be released so it made it pointless. My complaints fell on deaf ears. It was a missed opportunity for sure as it was a good magazine.
It had greats ads!
I agree. I love that the BSM archives are included with a subscription, but it's not the same without the ads. It seems a skill and an art when the ads are near compelling as the content of a magazine.
Yes, that would certainly be something that would need to be changed. Perhaps that could be solved by releasing it same day as a plain epub, with little tagging, and then upgrading it later to the Logos edition (which would need to be sooner than later… a month or two at most, not years).
I did just notice that even though the last issue came out in 2017, many of them are still pending their Logos editions.
There was a time, years ago, when folks were clamoring for a digital edition of BSM, even a years old archive.
Bob chimed in on the discussion. I don't remember exactly what he said, (I'd have to search for the post when time presents itself,) but the gist of it was that he did not want digital BSM, only print in order to reach a specific group of people that don't necessarily use Logos.
That was always a mystery. Marketing a new car design only to bicycle riders.
I suspect everyone imagined the magazine being PRODUCED digitally. But not SOLD digitally. That was especially mysterious.
I remember that, which I thought was very odd.
I liked it in the beginning, but every article devolved into an advertisement for Logos, eventually. I subscribed for a few years and dropped it. I don't miss it, much.
To me that was a great thing about it. Being able to take what one is reading and basically use it as a guide in Logos was quite enjoyable.
