That type of relationship between publishers and Bible Software companies is hard to reproduce in the open-source world. The publishers don’t have to market or create a store to sell those e-copies because the Bible software companies do that already for them. Often the Bible Software companies will take the raw text files and create their own compatible files that will work with their software. The publishers don’t have to even create the files in those cases. The way it works now with other makers of Bible study tools is that they either strike a deal with the publisher to give them a percentage of every copy of their software that they sell, or in the case of Logos I think they must give the publishers a portion of every e-copy they sell through their platform. I think that those of us who love open-source software would be happy to pay for an electronic version of our favorite translations or Bible study tools, but publishers would have to market and sell those on their own sites. Without a product that you sell and a company that you can communicate with publishers don’t see a way to mesh their business model with the open-source software packages.
They seem to steer clear of creating files that are compatible for open-source software because they don’t see a way to make back the money they would invest in making the compatible files. You have hit upon one of the issues that I have discovered with open-source software and Bible publishers.
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