I keep coming across books releasing soon from major Christian publishers that are not available to

Here is yet one to vote for:

Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality

But we shouldn't need to keep voting for these. If Logos can have a constant stream of EVERYTHING under the sun that comes from secular publishers that also publish horrible content that needs to be removed because Christians can't stomach it, then why oh why can't they automatically bring EVERYTHING from trusted Christian publishers they have carried for years (e.g., Fortress Press, Eerdmans, Zondervan, IVP, Baker, Baylor, Westminster John Knox Press, and so on) immediately to ebook format?

It's so frustrating to have to order this stuff from Amazon in Kindle format, or else wait an inordinate amount of time to get in from Logos, and then only after bugging Logos to get it.

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GregW

It's so frustrating to have to order this stuff from Amazon in Kindle format, or else wait an inordinate amount of time to get in from Logos, and then only after bugging Logos to get it.

Especially when online academic e-libraries like Perlego do have them and we can access them along with thousands of books from other academic disciplines for not much more than the monthly Logos Pro subscription. Things like this are increasingly going to become competitors to Logos, and sorting out the flow of new books is one of the things they really need to sort out to counter this threat. The reading experience in Logos is far better but the access to current books elsewhere is much more comprehensive. If Perlego showed page numbers to allow me to cite properly and allowed me to export notes and highlights I'd probably stop buying books from Logos.

Lew Worthington

You're likely correct about the future competition Logos will encounter. It seems as of it (Logos) is not keen on producing books as a priority in recent months (just my perception; I have no data to support it). Heavily tagged books are apparently expensive and maybe with that business model, they have painted themselves into a corner.

However, I will say that the library you mentioned did not fare well when I punched in ISBNs of some of the volumes we users are voting for Logos to offer.

Christian Alexander

I believe you are very well correct about the future competition Logos will encounter throughout the general scope of Christian texts. Logos has chosen to choose a different path than the majority. They made the decision to charge a lot more for the electronic version than for the actual hard copy. Except for Logos, all other markets have higher prices for hard copy books because to higher overhead (printing and distribution costs). That is not a cost of Logos as far as I can see. With Amazon, most books that are preordered will arrive on publication day. This is something Logos does not offer. It appears that Amazon accomplished this task with a far larger library than Logos. Furthermore, I highly doubt they would incur significant costs if the sole method included doing it by hand. I think it's possible, but it will take creativity and stepping outside of compartmentalized procedures within complex portals.

Paul Caneparo

Here is yet one to vote for:

Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality

But we shouldn't need to keep voting for these. If Logos can have a constant stream of EVERYTHING under the sun that comes from secular publishers that also publish horrible content that needs to be removed because Christians can't stomach it, then why oh why can't they automatically bring EVERYTHING from trusted Christian publishers they have carried for years (e.g., Fortress Press, Eerdmans, Zondervan, IVP, Baker, Baylor, Westminster John Knox Press, and so on) immediately to ebook format?

It's so frustrating to have to order this stuff from Amazon in Kindle format, or else wait an inordinate amount of time to get in from Logos, and then only after bugging Logos to get it.

It's one of the reasons I don't mind the Faithlife ebook format, as at least no development is required and there's no reason not to release on the day of publication. Although I appreciate many like the added features of Logos Research Editions. If I had a choice of not being available as a Research Edition, I'd chose a Faithlife ebook every time over Kindle.

GaoLu

If I had a choice of not being available as a Research Edition, I'd chose a Faithlife ebook every time over Kindle.

Absolutely!