Prepubs Killing My Book Budget
Is it just me or have others noticed a huge increase in prepub releases? May alone has racked up 17 books and counting worth over $570.00!
This blows my budget for the next 5 months...
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So I am not the only one with a $100 per month budget! The problem is that WE [the members of this forum] complained that it took too long to get a resource out of pre-pub. Now we have our WISH. Maybe our next WISH should be to have a way to put pre-pubs on an extended payment plan.
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Just get used to it. Bob said he's trying to push over 10,000 titles out the door each year. That's going to tax even the largest budgets.
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No, what it means is Logo will find many canceling their prepubs.
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Evan Boardman said:
No, what it means is Logo will find many canceling their prepubs.
I have already started- deleted $2k worth of prepubs the other day; will be assessing CP offerings as well- why buy books you never open the page on:)
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Exactly. This sadly was me during the Classic "fill in the Blank" that came out the past two years. I wish I could have afforded them all.
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David Paul said:
Just get used to it. Bob said he's trying to push over 10,000 titles out the door each year. That's going to tax even the largest budgets.
Did you hear that, Rosie ? [:S]
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I do not expect to own everything Logos releases, I have got many things I want, I do assess my pre pubs from time to time but I do not order everything that comes along and often times find it hard to kill one I really want. As I said before, Logos offers the chance to pay in advance with Book Cache: Monthly Subscription. I am not taking advantage of thing because I am doing a Logos Payment plan, and As I said I would not put money in it for every pre-pub but putting a little in there each month there is no releases will ease the shock of the big releases coming.
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There's a Faithlife group for discussing these things: Creating a budget and cancelling orders
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George Somsel said:David Paul said:
Just get used to it. Bob said he's trying to push over 10,000 titles out the door each year. That's going to tax even the largest budgets.
Did you hear that, Rosie ?
Even if I could afford to buy everything coming out in pre-pub, I'm being much more selective these days. It's good that there's a greater variety of books to please a greater variety of people, but we all need to be more discerning about what we will actually use.
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From a Blog on why so many books: ""We’re adding between 50 and 100 books each week""
Yes, we need to be more selective but more books will bring in a larger customer base.
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So sad... I cannot allow this to happen again and I see no other option but to delete the rest of my prepub commitments. I'll be paying for the month of May plus interest until Oct.
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Currently I have 3000 titles. According to the statistics I could expect to live 30 years from now. That means I should read 100 books in a year, two books in a week. I started to cut my pre-pubs a year ago, but still add some occasionally [8-|]
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Veli Voipio said:
Currently I have 3000 titles. According to the statistics I could expect to live 30 years from now. That means I should read 100 books in a year, two books in a week. I started to cut my pre-pubs a year ago, but still add some occasionally
Most of the books are not for reading [but that would be nice if we could read all of our books] but for searching. Every time we do a search on our entire library we [effectively] 'read' every book we own.
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David Ames said:
Every time we do a search on our entire library we [effectively] 'read' every book we own
That is the proper perspective.
Now,, if only my wife would see it that way.
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Super.Tramp said:David Ames said:
Every time we do a search on our entire library we [effectively] 'read' every book we own
That is the proper perspective.
Now,, if only my wife would see it that way.
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David Ames said:
Most of the books are not for reading [but that would be nice if we could read all of our books] but for searching. Every time we do a search on our entire library we [effectively] 'read' every book we own.
Now THAT'S what I call "speed reading"!! [8-|]
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From what I've seen many of the books later end up in large collections. I picked up a ton of books recently, both pre-pub ones and CP ones, that I had missed out on when I bought one of the large packages they just released.
Saved a lot more money doing it that way too.
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David Ames said:
Most of the books are not for reading [but that would be nice if we could read all of our books] but for searching. Every time we do a search on our entire library we [effectively] 'read' every book we own.
Indeed! It's like having our own private research library. If you walked into a church or seminary library and it had only three rickety bookcases with a haphazard collection of someone's random cast-off books, even if you could easily read all of those books in a few years, you wouldn't think it a very useful place to begin your research for a paper or sermon prep or personal study to learn more about a particular topic, would you? But if it were a carefully curated library, with thousands of volumes, well catalogued (the best a physical library can do: and we have full-text searching which is infinitely better), now wouldn't that be more inviting? It doesn't mean you'd want to read every single book in that library, but just having access to them to pore over and look for the information you wanted would be very much more useful than a smaller library of books you could read each of in their entirety.
You might say, "Well nobody needs to have that entire library on their own computer, just for doing research!" But most of us don't have access to a well-stocked theological library in our town. And even if we did, we can't do a full-text search on it. And as computers have gotten faster and cheaper and hard disks larger, it makes more and more sense for each of us to have our own personally curated library, unique to our needs.
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What I would say to those people Rosie, is that books are to a pastor what a hammer is to a carpenter. I am by far a much better pastor/preacher because of my library. And just like you don't want a doctor who just winged it through school to do surgery on you, you don't want a pastor who just goes with his gut. The wisdom that these books contain are worth whatever they cost. And to have them available digitally wherever you are is priceless (think mission field).
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Yes for most books. And to be ready to pay a little more has happened a few times:
... but with the kind of finances I have I can't purchase all a bit irrelevant interesting books. And I won't have more money later on. So I expect more from the books I buy, than that in usefulness they are barely worth their price.Everett Headley said:The wisdom that these books contain are worth whatever they cost.
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Rosie Perera said:
And as computers have gotten faster and cheaper and hard disks larger, it makes more and more sense for each of us to have our own personally curated library, unique to our needs.
When reading the results of a search, I often come across a citation to a book I don't have. Often that book can be found in the web. If not, or for some other reason, it might be in some library nearby, and I can check it there. Need not to own every book in Logos in order to get extensive results.
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Veli Voipio said:Rosie Perera said:
And as computers have gotten faster and cheaper and hard disks larger, it makes more and more sense for each of us to have our own personally curated library, unique to our needs.
When reading the results of a search, I often come across a citation to a book I don't have. Often that book can be found in the web. If not, or for some other reason, it might be in some library nearby, and I can check it there. Need not to own every book in Logos in order to get extensive results.
But what if it is your destiny to be the first to quote that book? If it is not in your library and no one has quoted it before you will not know that it exists. And it just might be the only published work that agrees with your line of thought.
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Veli Voipio said:
Need not to own every book in Logos in order to get extensive results.
True, you don't need any books in Logos but they are there for those that want them.
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