David Scaer's Book Achieves Breakeven, Price Reduced
Ad Crucem Books has recovered its operating input costs for Rev. Dr. Scaer's book, enabling it to be repriced to near break-even.
One year ago, Ad Crucem Books published Without the Shedding of Blood, There is No Forgiveness of Sins. The book has sold well and achieved breakeven for Ad Crucem’s operating cost contribution to the project. Consequently, the book’s price has been reduced substantially, and the lowest price option is to purchase it directly from Amazon at $12 for the softcover and $18 for the hardcover (the price change is working its way through the system and should update soon).
Christ’s Church appreciates that author Rev. Dr. David Scaer, along with contributors Rev. Dr. Ron Garwood, Rev. Dr. Daniel Preus, and Pr. Ben Ball, declined compensation for their work on the book. The two editors, Rev. Riley J. Corrigan and Rev. Isaac Spangler, deserve recognition for their tremendous work compiling the book and advancing the whole project to completion.1 We also appreciate Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mayes and Rev. Dr. Charles Gieschen for speedily approving the use of Prof. Scaer’s content from Concordia Theological Quarterly.
Ad Crucem continues to pioneer a new publishing model for the church that allows a light touch regarding copyright, trademarks, input costs, and dealing with surpluses once a book reaches breakeven. We pray that all truly Christian publishing houses might follow a similar model rather than continuing to stack massive and ever-higher net asset balances.
Non Sine Sanguine
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A CTFSW representative disallowed Corrigan and Spangler’s names from being included because they were, at the time, vicars and should not be “publishing theological writings under your name while you are a student.”
Congrats! I love that you guys do that!!!
This is great and I give thanks to God for you and your pursuits in this publishing method!
I have thought before it would be beneficial to keep theological works more open in terms of copyright while also paying authors/editors/publishers/etc for their labors. I've wondered if the crowdfunding type of model would work, where the associated costs of publishing a work were made known publicly upfront, and then once those costs have been met the books are sold at the cost of printing, the digital file is free, and the work is relicensed as CC or PD.
This would allow for laborers to receive their wages and the work not to disappear into oblivion because of copyright. Additionally, if the costs are known upfront, certain donors may simply foot the bill in order to get the price down for others sooner.
Again, thank you.