The Beloved Disciple: Following John to the Heart of Jesus on Pre-Pub

Just to give you a little background - I am a missionary and a few years ago I decided to go completely digital with all of my books. Getting cheap used paperbacks for 1.95 is not an option. Of course, most my library is in Logos format, however with resources such as this, I am wondering if extra Logos formatting/tagging is worth the 30% markup over kindle price (my de-facto measuring stick) for this TYPE of book. (mostly devotional, read-only-once, minimal cross references/tagging vs. reference books that use excessive tagging and are used much, even daily).

If I buy kindle editions, it is like "buy 3 get 1 free."

with kindle available pretty much on any screen out there (except for competing e-readers) it sure looks like a good alternative to Logos.

do you think resources such as this COST Logos so much that it justifies 30% markup over what publisher is willing to earn from a kindle equivalent? I may be wrong, but I believe that books like this are run mostly through an automated tagging routine and require very little manual labor cost.

I am not against logos at all (I own Portfolio, after all), but am
trying to be practical. Are there issues I may be overlooking (such as
having all or most of my resources in one format in one place -
uniformity has its value, for sure).

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Kevin Becker

With Logos you pay a premium to have an expertly marked-up book. If you don't want the benefits of the Logos format, then don't buy it in Logos format. I tend to limit my Logos purchases to Biblical Study reference material. The only reason I would buy a book like this in Logos is if I thought it might get returned in search results.

Related to your question is this post by Bob Pritchett http://community.logos.com/forums/p/11152/87648.aspx#87648 , he directly talks about cost and pricing issues.

Michael March

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/174833#Comment_174833

I agree with you Kevin, most of my purchases are for Bible study which I hope will get hits when researching. A book like this is for reading more than researching and I doubt it would pull up many hits. I personally just don't read books on a laptop, I have the kindle for that. Once L4 is available on the droid (yes I already asked for it on the mobile forum), then it might make more sense as you could read the book on the go (I know about library.logos.com and biblia, but reading a book that must download each page turn is cumbersome at best). Having said that. I would always rather buy it from Logos than anywhere else because I honestly believe in this company and it's worthy of my support, even if the price needs to be marked up a bit because of the work to tag it.