What next? Lending LOGOS/VYRSO books of course!
I think this is a natural progression to an awesome Logos experience. Many publishers are already on-board with this. This feature would work really well for families and church groups. One would initiate a "loan" from his Logos software, Logos would send an email to the recipient, who would download the title and read/use it for a period of 14 days or so. once this is over, the title would be unavailable to the recipient and available back to the lender (who would be unable to read/use it while it is lent-out).
I believe this would add credibility to (especially Vyrso's) higher prices for Logos resources.
I imagine there are technical issues (including indexing) but they are all resolvable. Do you think Logos would pursue it? Should it?
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At the very least, even if there is no technical viability at the moment, Logos should pursue this issue in their negotiations with publishers. Who knows, maybe within 5 years lending books would be as easy as pie. Of course, 5 years should give them sufficient time to address way outdated "missing features"
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I LOVE the idea. I don't think it has much of a chance, though, at least in the near future. Is it Nook that has a similar feature? I wonder what percentage of their books are eligible to be lent?
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Nook and Kindle both - basically the whole market. This is one of the examples why free market is the best system in the world. Consumers demanded it and voted with their wallets.
As I said, it may be too early for Logos to tackle this technologically right now, but it should definitely be a part of their negotiations with publishers.
My wife and I have an extended Kindle Library and with exception of a cookbook, some specialized Building/construction How-to books and a few (surprizingly) Christian novels (they were VERY cheap - $2) lending is allowed. I would say over 80%.
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I checked Amazon's forums and someone actually crunched the numbers. The latest data is of the end of 2010 and 32% of a major section of Amazon books are lendable.
Category All LendMe %
Fiction 34278 11531 34%
Nonfiction 16165 4836 30%
Total 50443 16367 32%The bad news for both Kindle and Nook "lending" is that a book can only be lent once, period. BUT, with economies of scale, basically with a large enough pool of willing lenders this should not be a problem.
Even the fact that publishers are caving in to customer's demands is a good indication. What's next? DRM free books, just the same as music? Now THAT would be awesome! I believe it will only promote reading and buying (it did for music).
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