RSS feed for new books?

Dominick Sela
Dominick Sela Member Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

Just bought my first Vyrso book, the Bonhoeffer one!  I am not a iPad/iPod guy just a Windows user, so is there possibly an RSS feed or something equally easy to be notified about new books published to the site? I assume it's just the 15 for now?

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  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) Member, MVP Posts: 36,470 ✭✭✭

    Vyrso is in the "pre-launch" stage. Currently there are 25 books available (most of which are from Thomas Nelson).

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  • fgh
    fgh Member Posts: 8,948 ✭✭✭

    is there possibly an RSS feed or something equally easy to be notified about new books

    Considering that they say they'll add 25,000 books before the end of the year, are you really sure you want an RSS feed? [:P]

    (Actually, a feed that notified us when a new publisher was added would be a good idea, but not for every single new book, thank you very much. -- Though, coming to think of it, separate feeds for each publisher might also be a good idea. I'd be happy to be notified of new Ignatius and Paulist books, as long as I don't have to sift through tons of uninteresting stuff as well.)

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  • Tobias Lampert
    Tobias Lampert Member Posts: 761

    Considering that they say they'll add 25,000 books before the end of the year, are you really sure you want an RSS feed? Stick out tongue

    [:D] [Y]

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  • Dominick Sela
    Dominick Sela Member Posts: 3,641 ✭✭✭

    Considering that they say they'll add 25,000 books before the end of the year, are you really sure you want an RSS feed? Stick out tongue

     

    Sure! My local newspaper has an RSS feed of headlines, then you click the link to read the article. They probably average 30 a day, which is 10,000 a year.  Engadget (www.engadget.com) sends feeds on technology stories of all types, they probably averages 50 a day, close to 20,000 a year. It's easy to just scan a ton of one line titles in less than a minute and see what you are interested in. Reuters, BBC, and Wikipedia most recent changes are other feeds which have very high volume.

    If the books come that fast (and prep-pub delivery scheduling makes me a bit skeptical [:D]), this will be easier for me to keep up with what is new. My .02...

  • Tobias Lampert
    Tobias Lampert Member Posts: 761

    Considering that they say they'll add 25,000 books before the end of the year, are you really sure you want an RSS feed? Stick out tongue

     

    Sure! My local newspaper has an RSS feed of headlines, then you click the link to read the article. They probably average 30 a day, which is 10,000 a year.  Engadget (www.engadget.com) sends feeds on technology stories of all types, they probably averages 50 a day, close to 20,000 a year. It's easy to just scan a ton of one line titles in less than a minute and see what you are interested in. Reuters, BBC, and Wikipedia most recent changes are other feeds which have very high volume.

    If the books come that fast (and prep-pub delivery scheduling makes me a bit skeptical Big Smile), this will be easier for me to keep up with what is new. My .02...

    Well, it is just getting difficult when you already have twenty-something feeds with 30 entries daily ... [:P] But you're right. It might be a good idea, maybe in fact combined with the possibility to filter like fgh suggested.

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  • Bob Pritchett
    Bob Pritchett Member, Logos Employee Posts: 2,280

    We're in the process of preparing the "real" Vyrso store, which will be much like the Logos.com bookstore. We already have more than 3,000 titles about ready to go -- we just need to finish the store. So day one's RSS entry would be pretty big. :-)

  • fgh
    fgh Member Posts: 8,948 ✭✭✭

    We already have more than 3,000 titles about ready to go

    Any chance you could reveal what publishers will be in from the start? Or, to be more specific: are there any Catholic/Orthodox/Jewish ones, or just the usual more or less Evangelical ones?

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  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭

    If the books come that fast (and prep-pub delivery scheduling makes me a bit skeptical Big Smile),

    From what I've read elsewhere on this forum,  Logos is getting the ePub files and simply converting them, so I don't expect the lead time is something that will impact upon us,  except for maybe initally if we are waiting for a particular title.   I think maybe if you could create custom RSS feeds based on either your favourite author, or a particular category/topic.  That might be good.  A new publisher RSS feed already suggested is a great idea also.