I thought I had a pretty good search bookmark for books on sale, but I've noticed sale books do slip through my search. I check Gospelebooks each morning to see if there's anything of interest - hoping they might be in Faithlife ebooks if so. This morning I spotted this book is on sale (today only); is on sale at Faithlife ebooks; but didn't appear in my bookmarked search. Any thoughts on improving my search?
https://ebooks.faithlife.com/product/229372/take-every-thought-captive-exchange-lies-of-the-enemy-for-the-mind-of-christ
https://ebooks.faithlife.com/search?sortBy=Savings&limit=60&page=1&filters=Live_Status%2BBiography%3Agenre-biography_Genre%2BBiblical%20Studies%3Agenre-biblicalstudies_Genre%2BBusiness%3Agenre-business_Genre%2BChristian%20Group%3Agenre-christiangroup_Genre%2BChristian%20Living%3Agenre-christianliving_Genre%2BCounseling%20and%20Psychology%3Agenre-counselingandpsychology_Genre%2BEducation%3Agenre-education_Genre%2BFamily%20%26%20Relationships%3Agenre-familyrelationships_Genre%2BHealth%20%26%20Fitness%3Agenre-healthfitness_Genre%2BHistory%3Agenre-history_Genre%2BMinistry%3Agenre-ministry_Genre%2BPersonal%20Growth%3Agenre-personalgrowth_Genre%2BReligion%3Agenre-religion_Genre%2BPolitics%3Agenre-politics_Genre%2Bgenre-reference_Genre%2BSections%20of%20the%20Bible%3Agenre-sectionsofthebible_Genre%2BTheology%3Agenre-theology_Genre%2Bgenre-philosophy_Genre%2Bgenre-socialscience_Genre%2Bgenre-worldreligions_Genre%2Bgenre-literarycriticism_Genre%2Bgenre-science_Genre%2Bgenre-humor_Genre%2Bgenre-poetry_Genre%2Bgenre-bibles_Genre%2Bgenre-businesseconomics_Genre%2Bgenre-politicalscience_Genre%2Bgenre-psychology_Genre%2Bgenre-bodymindspirit_Genre%2Bgenre-househome_Genre%2Bgenre-selfhelp_Genre%2Bgenre-travel_Genre%2Bgenre-sportsrecreation_Genre%2Bgenre-medical_Genre%2Bgenre-faithlifewomen_Genre%2Bgenre-truecrime_Genre%2Bgenre-law_Genre%2Bgenre-languageartsdisciplines_Genre%2Bgenre-nature_Genre%2Bstatus-prepub_Status%2Bgenre-bestdeals_Genre%2Bgenre-studyaids_Genre%2Blanguage-english_Language&ownership=unowned&geographicAvailability=all&viewMode=list
I keep a separate bookmark for novels.
https://ebooks.faithlife.com/search?sortBy=Savings&limit=60&page=1&filters=status-live_Status%2Bgenre-fiction_Genre%2Bgenre-fiction-suspense_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-mystery_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-crime_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-thriller_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-mysterydetective_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-thrillers_Fiction%2Bgenre-fiction-legal_Fiction&ownership=unowned&geographicAvailability=all&viewMode=list
Thanks for telling about that book! Regarding "how to find sales on ebooks", this is really difficult and by watching feeds like gospelebooks you probably already optimized it.
Your search for savings only gives me the subscribers' 5% (the rebate against the digtal list price isn't shown, probably due to people complaineing that many books will be priced at say 50% of the "digital list price" everyday without being at sale). What Logos actually does - and I don't know whether there is a technical reason behind that, but at least that is the current process as far as I know it - is they usually don't put in a special rebate or sales price for an eBook, but simply change the selling price. Possibly this comes from an automated data feed directly from the publisher, and this process does not differentiate temporary sales prices from what is the everyday standard price.
I don't know what happened to me. A few show a buy button (logged in). Most say not-for-you! Well, ok! Back to the Big-A.
@NB.Mick My search used to give me results like the book that wasn't covered by the bookmark today.
My search is this: https://ebooks.faithlife.com/search?context=product&sortBy=PriceLow&limit=15&page=1&filters=status-live_Status&ownership=unowned&geographicAvailability=availableToMe&viewMode=list It searched all books sorted by price (lowest first), available to me, and unowned. Not sure if this catches free books since the above search did not.
@Mark Smith thanks. That includes Logos too.
Paul, that is interesting and I really didn't notice it, though it is clear now that you point it out.
I created the search on the ebooks page selecting all books from the Books menu. I would hardly expect that to have included Logos books.
One problem with my search that I discovered on re-examination is that it missed free books. It showed none. I had to select 'All' rather than 'Unowned' to see the free ones I don't have. That means having to scroll through the ones I own. I suspect this anomaly is the result of the new approach to product searching Logos introduced on the web site a while back. It stopped producing results we'd expect. Sigh!
My bookmarked search has delivered excellent results over the years, but does seem to miss certain sale items now - which is where Gospelebooks helps identify some sale ebooks I might otherwise miss. Weirdly though refreshing the page can deliver different results. See attached. The second image was a result of refreshing the page 5 seconds after accessing the search initially.
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