The Catholic Encyclopedia - Please bid!

Dan said:

What better to help you during this Year of Faith than a copy of the Catholic Encyclopedia in your Logos software!

Better would be BOTH the Catholic Encyclopedia AND the Jewish Encyclopedia.  Bid, bid, bid.

I've been in too for several months now, but it doesn't seem to be moving much lately. 

Dan said:

What better to help you during this Year of Faith than a copy of the Catholic Encyclopedia in your Logos software!

The Catechism? The Vatican II documents? [;)]

But apart from that, I do wish we could get The Catholic Encyclopedia moving. Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen unless people raise their bids to $50 or so.

And, yes, I want The Jewish Encyclopedia as well. [:)]

Rosie Perera said:

The Jewish Encyclopedia looks much more doable in the short term.

The Jewish one is 12 vols for $50, the Catholic one is 17 vols for $30. Small wonder the Jewish one is better off, even though the Catholic one's actually got more bids.

Add to that the fact that the Catholic one must have added a huge number of links in the last year, and will add more for every month that goes by, and one starts to suspect that the costs for producing it may easily rise faster than our combined bids. 

By the way, I'm rather surprised they didn't include the Catholic Encyclopedia in the new Verbum base packages, and got it into production that way. What a missed opportunity! It belongs there.

fgh said:

By the way, I'm rather surprised they didn't include the Catholic Encyclopedia in the new Verbum base packages, and got it into production that way. What a missed opportunity! It belongs there.

I want this ressource.  Please Logos include it in the Catholic Basic Collection [:D]

I have been in at 30 for month [:D]

fgh said:

 

You'll be in for many months more -- not to say many years more -- unless you raise to $50.

OK, Am in for $50.  Who else will join the 50 party?  

[[The cost for getting a resource are fixed.  It takes $xxx.  There are fewer people after this resource than some others so it is going to cost each of us more $$$$.

$50 is only $3 per volume.  $2 per volume is nice but will we ever get it?]]

fgh said:

unless you raise to $50

... and even if many many others do that too, it won't be enough: Right now for $30 it is reaching ~30%, so we need all the people bidding at $30 now to raise the bids to more than 3 times $30 or close to $100 to get it into production!

Interestingly if you want to know what happens if all bidders at $30 increase to $50, continue reading. If you're not into solving equations, skip the rest. For $50 it's at 10% (very roughly). Even if every bidder at $30 raise their bids to $50, we would end up with about 60% of the cost. If you're wondering how I came up with this, here's the math behind it:

If the cost of production is $X, the number of bidders now at $30 = A and the numbers of bidders now at $50 = B, then:

A = 30% * X / $30

B = 10% * X / $50

If everyone at $30 changes their bid to $50, the number of people bidding at $50 would be A+B = 30% * X / $30 + 10% * X / $50

Common denominator at $150, the equation becomes A+B = 180% * X / $150

Let the new % of cost at $50 be Y%, then it's also true that A+B = Y% * X / $50

Solving for Y we get 60%.

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David Ames said:

The cost for getting a resource are fixed.

Actually, no. As I wrote above, the cost to produce this series must be constantly rising, as more Catholic resources are shipped and the number of possible links increase. Though I guess it's possible they've written some scripts by now that can automate some of the process.

David Ames said:

There are fewer people after this resource than some others

Well, there are fewer people than for the top four CP's. [:)]  Yes, sort by Bestselling and you'll see that there are only four CP's with more bids than this. And the Jewish one comes right after.

Sleiman said:

even if many many others do that too, it won't be enough: Right now for $30 it is reaching ~30%, so we need all the people bidding at $30 now to raise the bids to more than 3 times $30 or close to $100 to get it into production!