How much did you pay?

$3.54 per resource!

On my account orders page, I noticed the rather embarrassing total dollar amount I've invested in Logos resources over the past 12 years or so. Dividing by the number of resources in my library, I was surprised to discover that I've spent more than $3.54 per resource!

How about you?

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Rosie Perera

Don't feel so badly. I've paid an average of $7.74 per resource. Actually it's probably somewhat less than that because of all the hidden ones. But still probably about twice what you paid.

DHG

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221834#Comment_221834

Well I guess the bright side is that a majority of my resources are worth 10x that amount...

Timothy Ha

I am about 3 years with Logos. And my average amount is the same as yours.

Still cheaper than Kindle, you know.

DHG

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221837#Comment_221837

True.

Timothy Ha

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221838#Comment_221838

Your post does reveal how successful Logos is - to make people purchase thousands of e-books at 1/3 of Kindle price. But thousands of books!

:-)

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221840#Comment_221840

Your post does reveal how successful Logos is - to make people purchase thousands of e-books at 1/3 of Kindle price. But thousands of books!

Yup, I've spent about 615 times as much on Logos books as I have on Kindle books. Just goes to show you...

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221845#Comment_221845

On my orders page there is a dollar total for prepubs but there no longer is a total for all orders, and there used to be! I tried not to look at it [:^)] maybe they are trying to be kind and not scare me with the total any more...[:'(]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221856#Comment_221856

On my orders page there is a dollar total for prepubs but there no longer is a total for all orders, and there used to be! I tried not to look at it maybe they are trying to be kind and not scare me with the total any more...

Dominick, I don't mean to scare you, but there are four sections of your Orders page: Open Pre-Pub Orders, Open Community Pricing Bids, Order History, and Downloadable Libronix Files. When you scroll to the bottom of the page, you won't see a total. Try scrolling to the bottom of the section titled Order History, and that's where you'll see the total. I agree, it's pretty scary. Maybe that's why they hid it so well.

Randy O'Brien

$2.58 - I have portfolio and lots of journals and other additional resources. These were all purchased through the academic discount. (It almost makes tuition worth it [:D]) I'm surprised that it's that low, but I'm very happy with that.

Shawn Drewett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221893#Comment_221893

I've purchased so many Thomas Nelson products ---in the hundreds of books--that I really can't figure my total cost.

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221863#Comment_221863

Dominick, I don't mean to scare you, but there are four sections of your Orders page: Open Pre-Pub Orders, Open Community Pricing Bids, Order History, and Downloadable Libronix Files. When you scroll to the bottom of the page, you won't see a total. Try scrolling to the bottom of the section titled Order History, and that's where you'll see the total.

It's there, thanks Rosie I was going to the bottom. That's a scary number indeed! But I figure, if I didn't spend the money on my faith, and indirectly helping others with their faith through my support of Logos, I would have wasted money in other ways.

BTW, I have a very large library, and my number is $6.54 per resource. I have bought some third party resources over the years so this is probably a little on the low side, but definitely not more than 5% or so I suspect...

LaRosa Johnson

$2.01 per resource [:)]

TCBlack

Looks like about $2.16 per resource.

Wes Saad

~$3.47

DMB

$8.41 after subtracting out the papyri/targums. Suspect avg-cost has much to do with the book-mix, since most of mine were on some form of pre-pub / sale.

BillS

I can't tell... it only includes resources I've bought through Logos. I had too many other purchases from Nelson, etc., that didn't seem to be reflected for the number to be meaningful.

Michael G. Halpern

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221928#Comment_221928

< $3.00/resource. (Portfolio plus much more). Worth = Priceless!

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221944#Comment_221944

Estimate $ 1.79 per resource (including 42 videos) average (library upgrades to platinum plus community pricing plus pre-pubs).

Thankful for Logos (word became flesh), Logos Bible Software, and Logos forums. Rejoicing per Paul's imperative commands in Philippians 4:4-8

Keep Smiling [:)]

Mike Tourangeau

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221985#Comment_221985

Great measurement....

2.33 for me. Worth every penny 1.5 yrs

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221928#Comment_221928

~$3.47

C'mon now, they didn't pay you to take the resources. Confess.

EDIT: Oops ! I thought that was a negative rather than approximate. Perhaps I need to enlarge the text size.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222007#Comment_222007

~$3.47

C'mon now, they didn't pay you to take the resources. Confess.

In mathematics an equal symbol (=) with wavy lines like a tilde (~) means "approximate" since there's no corresponding ASCI character a simple tilde often suffices for approximitly.

Justin Cofer

Including 3rd party resources from Nelson, etc, I'm at $2.62 a resource. It's worth it.

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222007#Comment_222007

EDIT: Oops ! I thought that was a negative rather than approximate. Perhaps I need to enlarge the text size.

At 39, your arms might be getting too short. [:D] It happened to me, but tri-focals can do wonders to aging eyesight. [:D]

My resources average $3.22. If they were all NICOT/NT level that would be a real bargain.

Michael March

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222043#Comment_222043

$3.05 I'm quite encouraged by that! It was truly well spent.

Bill Shewmaker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222046#Comment_222046

I'm coming in at around $2.18 per resource...that will probably change some in the next few weeks and I'm not sure which way it will go. I'm hoping down, but if it raises a little.

George Somsel

I'm not sure my computations are correct since I had to count a large number of hidden resources and may have lost count, but I think it's around $6.40.

Garrett Ho

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/221938#Comment_221938

I can't tell... it only includes resources I've bought through Logos. I had too many other purchases from Nelson, etc., that didn't seem to be reflected for the number to be meaningful.

Same here. I calculate $1.97/resource, but considering resources purchased from beyond the Logos website, I'm sure it is closer to $3+

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222068#Comment_222068

Mine comes in at $6.14, assuming my estimate that I bought 75% of my library directly from Logos is correct. It's higher than most of you here, despite my academic discount. I guess that's because I tend to purchase newer (hence more expensive) resources, and some big ticket items have bumped up the average significantly. The recent Zondervan bundle 2 came in at $19.15, AYC at $20.11, and NICOT/NICNT at $24.90. And vol. 5 of the Encyclopedia of Christianity was $69.95 for a single resource!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222069#Comment_222069

Mine comes in at $6.14

Whew, that makes my 4.88 look better.[:S]

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222070#Comment_222070

I must be good at this: I'm lower than even KS4J! [:D]

Too bad the total sum isn't equally encouraging... And too bad that means that from now on the average can only go up...

Debra W Bouey

$1.87 per resource. Worth every penny! Kudos to my Logos sales rep, Jim-Ray!

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222070#Comment_222070

Mine comes in at $6.14

Whew, that makes my 4.88 look better.

Some people just don't know how to shop. Always paying too much.

I can't estimate how much I spent from other sources so have no idea what my final investment or cost is. Probably averages less than $5.00 a volume.

Tim Hogan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222085#Comment_222085

$4.60 ah, can I have a do over? Nay, I would probably get closer to Mark's

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222076#Comment_222076

I must be good at this: I'm lower than even KS4J!

Too bad the total sum isn't equally encouraging... And too bad that means that from now on the average can only go up...

I've spent over $12,000 on Logos with over $4,000 in the queue. Sigh ! Like Mike Barnes I tend to buy newer works so it's only going to increase my average price.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222076#Comment_222076

I must be good at this: I'm lower than even KS4J!

Too bad the total sum isn't equally encouraging... And too bad that means that from now on the average can only go up...

Looking at my orders page => purchases shipping soon or under contract average $ 6.11 per resource - know overall average heading up.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Oldnewbie

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222112#Comment_222112

I'm at around $2.67, which doesn't include 3rd party stuff.

Jason Hauser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224749#Comment_224749

n/m

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273914#Comment_273914

3. My last frustration relates to bundled packages. Last Christmas Logos promoted all kinds of deals of bundled books where the more you bought the more you saved per book. However, there was a lot of overlap with what was in the bundles and what you already have. So while it's still a good deal I now am really hesitant to buy a single work by any author because later a bundled set will come out and I can't take advantage of the savings without eating the individual titles I've already bought and factoring them into the savings for the new bundle.

I can appreciate that this would be problematic since I've run into the same situation. I looked at the collection and saw that those I wanted I already had but those I didn't have I didn't want so I played Winnie the Pooh and went "Think, think, think" until I finally decided, "I know, I won't buy it!"

DominicM

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273920#Comment_273920

More than I should have, but not as much as I would like to have (had I been working this past 9 mths) [:P]

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273914#Comment_273914

1. Many of the resources that Logos loves to include and bundle are public domain and free on books.google.com or elsewhere. Yes it might cost $100 to get a bound copy somewhere but if you are flexible you can get the same content on-line for $0.

2. The initial package is a great start but the reality is that future books you wish to add are outrageously expensive. I went to buy "Disciplines of a Godly Man" which Logos lists for $20. Kindle on the other hand lists it for less than $8. Logos couldn't come anywhere near that price even with an academic discount. Can I honestly justify paying double so that I can search the book (kindle does this too) and see pop up reference tags.

Just as a point of clarification since it comes up from time to time, public domain text. PDF, and Word formatted public domain resources that are free on the Internet and Kindle books are NOT competitive with Logos.

By logic:

1. If you only want to read a resource, find it for free or pay a minimal cost for it on something like a Kindle

2. If you want linking to other resources, searching/organizing by different indices, ability to organize with other resources for research and study functions, ability to highlight and mark up, ability to integrate with your own notes, ability to extract/sort/export/print included bible references and more, you need resources which have data added to them, been formatted, been organized in a database, and been integrated with software offering this functionality. Additional functionality costs a little more, no one could afford to offer Bible software if their resources needed to compete with public domain or just needed to be read.

There are times it appears to us, the user community, that Logos resources are more expensive than the same resources in other Bible study software offering like-minded functionality. But there are also times Logos resources are cheaper. To what degree that is an efficiency, condition of the manuscript, Logos pricing, or original resource owner pricing issue we do not know. I just wanted to make the point that comparing Logos resources to public domain and Kindle resources is illogical. A person is either going to want the extra functionality or not, and that dictates which resource to acquire and the rationale for a different cost model.

Matt Hamrick

$3.40 per resource

Debra W Bouey

USD $2.15 per resource!

Ryan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273928#Comment_273928

Approx. 2.96

Claybon Collins Jr

$2.20 per resource.

Paul Golder

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/222007#Comment_222007

So I took my Logos total, added my original discount purchase of "Series X Scholar's Library", averaged out all the third party titles, and it actually came to less than a dollar each.[:D]

MJD

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273934#Comment_273934

I have over 5,000 resources and my average unit cost is slightly under $5 a resource.

Bill Fitch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273923#Comment_273923

$3.60

Lawrence Young

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273957#Comment_273957

$2.91 [:D]

Tom Reynolds

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273958#Comment_273958

$4.054759420289855072463768115942 to be exact. But it's really going to take a dive when Logos releases those 3000+ free resources!

Tom

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Michael G. Halpern

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/273963#Comment_273963

$3.69/resource.