Yahoo!!!
I'll put in a pre-pub order for the whole kit and kaboodle! Can't wait. I hope it's a big bundle with everything! That would be the best Christmas present ever.
Yahoo!!! I'll put in a pre-pub order for the whole kit and kaboodle! Can't wait. I hope it's a big bundle with everything! That would be the best Christmas present ever.
Me too!! I am just re-reading The Four Loves. I do not always agree with him but I do always find myself stimulated by everything that he writes. His estate may be waking up to that fact that they are missing out on a lucrative market that is already shrinking as countries reach their 'entry to public domain' dates. I don't know about you but 'everything' to me also includes The Narnia series and the Science Fiction series trilogy!!! I can still remember listening to The Lion Witch and Wardrobe in the radio around 1960 as a kid. As a new Christian - a rather arrogant non-conformist - learning about how at least one Anglican used the Lord's prayer every week ..... Sorry I will shut up, I could go on and on. Suffice to say, he played a big part in helping me to mature as a Christian. PS Two memorable bits from Narnia, Aslan singing Narnia into existence and also the end of the world (The Final Battle).
Technically we have him in French
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This is exciting indeed! Can't wait!
Woohoo! What an exciting thread to see first thing in the morning!
Awesome!
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I don't know about you but 'everything' to me also includes The Narnia series and the Science Fiction series trilogy!!!
Oh yes, to me "everything" means EVERYTHING. Here's my post that I added to that Facebook thread:
Funnily enough, my favorite is a multi-volume collection called The Complete Works of C.S. Lewis (including all his fiction, non-fiction, essays, literary criticism, poetry, and letters). Ever heard of it? I hope you have, and I hope it's coming soon to pre-pub. But if I had to choose what to do in Logos first, I'd go for a set of his full-length non-fiction theological works (Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, The Abolition of Man, Reflections on the Psalms) plus his autobiographical works (Surprised by Joy, A Grief Observed) plus Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce and Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer.Then I'd go for a fiction set: The Chronicles of Narnia, the Space Trilogy, and Til We Have Faces.Then a collection of all his essays, especially the ones in Weight of Glory, God in the Dock, Finally his Letters to Children and Letters to an American Lady and more of his collected letters.I'd love to have the lit crit (Allegory of Love, Experiment in Criticism, The Discarded Image, Preface to Paradise Lost, etc.), poetry, and more obscure works too (Boxen, Pilgrim's Regress, The Dark Tower, etc.) but those would be harder for you to sell. So I'd be happy with the first three or four collections that I'm suggesting.But really...do everything! You'd be the ONLY digital publisher to do so, and it would be amazing.
Funnily enough, my favorite is a multi-volume collection called The Complete Works of C.S. Lewis (including all his fiction, non-fiction, essays, literary criticism, poetry, and letters). Ever heard of it? I hope you have, and I hope it's coming soon to pre-pub.
[:D] I like the idea of several collections (probably along your lines) released just enough distance apart to be able to save up for them!
I would like everything but I suspect if it was all in one mega bundle it might be too expensive for me so I'd
Ike the option of smaller bundles that build up to a mega bundle if we were to get everything C.S.Lewis
I have my Visa in hand.
There is a nice 5 min audio clip describing his lecturing style to his students at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l4b7r I think you can receive audio stuff from the BBC in the USA if not the video stuff. I would love to have seen him in action at Cambridge.
There is a nice 5 min clip describing his lecturing style to his students at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l4b7r I think you can receive audio stuff from the BBC in the USA if not the video stuff.
Thanks for sharing. Yes, it works fine here in the U.S.
This just in!
https://twitter.com/Logos/status/547086166588395520
This just in! https://twitter.com/Logos/status/547086166588395520
Good to hear. I'm looking forward to seeing what the C.S. Lewis Collection will offer.
This is great news.
Awesome! It's official. It says we can sign up to be the first to hear, but I'm not sure I'd hear any more quickly through email than I will anyway, as I'm going to be hitting Refresh on the Pre-pub page very frequently until it comes through! I bet this one will get to 100% in record time. Any guesses? I'm going to say less than 2 hours.
The suspense is high. I wonder how many of his books will be offered.
Can't wait!! If it goes out on Thursday it will be a brilliant Christmas present!
I hope it's a big bundle with everything!
If we can judge by the books released today on Olive Tree, the CS Lewis collection might contain
IF it ever makes it to Pre-Pub.
Ooh, that would be nice, and that does look like a sign that Aslan is on the move. But ouch! Faithlife, why did you let the other guys beat you to the punch?
But ouch! Faithlife, why did you let the other guys beat you to the punch?
Rosie you already know the answer.... It hasn't gone through pre-pub so they can get it under contract!!!
-Dan
But ouch! Faithlife, why did you let the other guys beat you to the punch? Rosie you already know the answer.... It hasn't gone through pre-pub so they can get it under contract!!!
But I meant they haven't even LISTED it in pre-pub yet. They have to get permission from the publisher before they can list it in pre-pub. But the teaser they posted on FB tells me they've probably already secured that permission. So what's taking them so long getting it up in pre-pub so that we can order it, when their competitor already has it listed? I don't know whether OT's listing is a pre-order kind of thing (doesn't look like it) or if it's already ready for download.
My post was just a friendly elbow jab to my friends at Faithlife to get a move on and not let the competition "eat their shorts" (a phrase we used to use at Microsoft).
I take it they're not going to include the Narnia books?
So what's taking them so long getting it up in pre-pub so that we can order it, when their competitor already has it listed?
That's what many of us are wondering. I also wonder why it took so long to negotiate something with the publishers but that we will probably never know.
All this about Lewis's books makes me wonder if in the future there will ever be books which make it to the Public Domain in less than 150 years?
Corporate greed among large publishers who will buy up small publishers for their back catalogue means that copyrights will be renewed until a generation after the paying market has been milked dry. With e-publishing meaning that publishers no longer require warehouse space there will be no constraints.
We probably live in what will in future be regarded as a golden age of publishing, when previously out-of-print books were made available as e-books to readers at reasonable prices.
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Every blessing
Alan
BTW I would love to have many books from the Geoffrey Bles back catalogue, including the Works of C.S. Lewis. How about the J.B. Phillips New Testament?
I'm hoping these C. S. Lewis titles will be compatible with the "Send to Kindle" functionality. I can't seem to find a rhyme or reason for why some books are/aren't able to be sent to the Kindle, so in my mind that means that there's at least a chance that these Lewis titles might be transferrable.
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Some of these titles are available now: https://www.logos.com/products/search?Product+Type=C+S+Lewis
Edit: Misinformation
Nope, these currently 6 are about Lewis rather than by him.
Whoops! I'm sorry!
Anyone else saw these interesting tweets from Tony Reinke?:
Logos.com has a teaser on the site, but you have to provide email to know when CSL collection is live. I will trust this forum to keep me informed.
Here's the link - you can keep hitting refresh F5 until it appears https://www.logos.com/product/49027/the-cs-lewis-collection
Will that help to get it into production faster? [:D]
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30 volumes for $279
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I'm pleased with how comprehensive it is, though there are a few titles that it's missing which I would have liked to see. Hopefully there will be a C.S. Lewis Collection Upgrade at some point that includes these:
And more collections of his essays (though there is no doubt some overlap among all of these and the ones they already have):
I'd also like to see them get these reference works on Lewis:
The C.S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia
The C.S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide To Lewis's Writings and Ideas
And lots more secondary literature about him and his works.
Incidentally, I recently discovered that Lewis wrote an Introduction to Athanasius's On the Incarnation which is available online.
I second Narnia, Malcolm, Four Loves, Til We Have Faces, and Surprised by Joy.
But not looking gift horses in the mouth...I am already bid in to Pre-Pub...thank you Faithlife/Logos.
I'm pleased with how comprehensive it is, though there are a few titles that it's missing which I would have liked to see. Hopefully there will be a C.S. Lewis Collection Upgrade at some point
I totally agree with you.
Same here. It's already past the 1/3 mark. Will probably make it to halfway there before end of day tomorrow. This has obviously been something lots of us have been waiting for. The timing is tough, because we've just had Christmas, and many have bought L6 recently or taken advantage of the year-end sales. But I still encourage you to pre-order this. Faithlife will still need to do the tagging work, so it will be a while before it ships, and hopefully your credit card balance will recover by then. If not, you can (gasp!) cancel your order before ship day.
I will be delighted to replace my Personal Book C. S. Lewis collection with the real Logos Lewis collection.
I only have one Lewis PB which I made for myself because I was taking a class for which is was a required text: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. I'll still probably keep that because I went to some great trouble to edit it and fixed a couple of typos that were even in the original print version (no, they weren't British spellings). And I'm still in the process of adding editorial footnotes to point out sources of a lot of his quotes and allusions that were not cited in the print edition's footnotes. I suppose I could transfer those over to Note in the Logos edition once it ships, but it's kind of nice having built-in footnotes.
