Master Journal Bundle (1001 vols.) No Dynamic Pricing

I have the same price you do Michael and I have Theological Libraries 1-15 plus other journals.

Also notice the number of volumes under product details

• Title: Church and Academic Journal Bundle
• Volumes: 997
• Resource Type: Journals
• Topic: Biblical Studies, Theology

I am sure this will be fixed in a day or two.  I also have no dynamic pricing.

Mark Smith said:

Looks like Logos was unable to get the rights to many of the Galaxie published journals. Not having JETS is huge. Missing The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Tyndale Bulletin, and WTJ which I also want. Some nice additions, but no JETS. Not good. I hope the door isn't completely closed.

I was thinking the same thing. I have the editions from the Galaxie bundle, but would enjoy an update. Not good.

Is there a way to know what journals would be new to me in this bundle?

In the past the dynamic pricing did not come into account until the product went live. There was no dynamic pricing in prepub.

I currently have volumes 1-15. Does anyone know how big a difference Dynamic Pricing would have on this Bundle?

Looks to be working now. I'm at $277. 

Phil Gons said:

Galaxie has 800 journals in their latest offering, and we already have more than 1,000. We have a lot more planned, and we'll likely be adding hundreds of additional volumes a year.

Could someone confirm that the Journal Library 1-15 is about 800 volumes? I am really curious how that collection compares to the current 1001 collection....

Pre-ordered this bundle. Dynamic Pricing seems to be working again. At least there was an on screen message saying that my price reflected journals I already have. [:^)]

Every blessing

Alan

Phil-

are you saying that "all" the journals we had from    Galaxie will be in the new Logos offering? Can we expect yearly updates to keep us current? 

I already see a group I had no intrest in put in the bundle- whats this going to cost me every year to keep the ones I'm interested in current?

Phil Gons said:

Sarel Slabbert said:

I currently have volumes 1-15. Does anyone know how big a difference Dynamic Pricing would have on this Bundle?

Sounds like you might own about half of this collection, give or take a bit. I'd guess you'd be looking at a 40–50% discount.

I also have volumes 1-15 but the price I am seeing only gives me a $85 discount. Is that what everyone else is seeing? (I also do not have Themelios yet).

Geo Philips said:

I also have volumes 1-15 but the price I am seeing only gives me a $85 discount. Is that what everyone else is seeing? (I also do not have Themelios yet).

It is different for everyone, depending on what you have.  I have Vol 1-15 and Themelios and yet my discount is $283.39. This is why a chart highlighting what we have and what this set will give to us is important.

Also, the Princeton Theological Review is on prepub for $50.  So a question is whether all that is offered in this MJB will be offered individually as well.  If we order the MJB, we obviously would need to cancel one or more prepubs.

Your price must be lower because you must have other journals besides Themelios which are not in Galaxie...

Phil Gons said:

Mark Smith said:

Looks like Logos was unable to get the rights to many of the Galaxie published journals. Not having JETS is huge. Missing The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Tyndale Bulletin, and WTJ which I also want. Some nice additions, but no JETS. Not good. I hope the door isn't completely closed.

Many of these are coming, but we didn't want to hold up the collection any longer. You've all been waiting long enough! We'll release updated versions of this collection as we get new batches of journals licensed.

Galaxie has 800 journals in their latest offering, and we already have more than 1,000. We have a lot more planned, and we'll likely be adding hundreds of additional volumes a year.

We're also rebuilding all of these to take advantage of our latest tagging standards. We're exploring some cool new tooling for journals too. I think you'll really like everything we have in the works for journals.

So what happens to the pricing when more journals are added?  Will the cost of the "Master Bundle" increase?  Will those of us who already purchased it get these?

Also, I know there was a deal going on a while ago about upgrading to Logos 5 and getting bundles at 50% off.  Is that deal still going on and is this bundle part of that deal?

The pricing will almost certainly go up when new journals are added. What will happen is that this collection will be retired, and a new, larger collection will be created in its place. if you purchase this one, you'll get dynamic pricing on the next.

This collection isn't part of the bundles offer. You can see those bundles at www.logos.com/bundles - but unless you bought Portfolio, I think you had to purchase the bundle at the same time as the base package to qualify for the discount.

Mark Smith said:

Only $200 off, many important journals missing,

The two go together. Because there's not huge overlap between this and TLJ, then your discount is less than it would be otherwise.

Mark Smith said:

What this is is an attempt to publish a bunch of journals that have languished on Pre-pub and Community Pricing.

I don't see it like that. I see it as a great opportunity to get a bunch of journals cheaply, that I couldn't afford when they're separated on pre-pub. I'm offered the bundle at $256, and I'd already placed a pre-order for Princeton at $100, and BA/NEA at $140. True, I see no value in the Journal of Markets and Morality and its ilk, and I already own the best of this bundle, but if Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages had been $50 instead of $150, I'd have bought it. Likewise for BASOR and NEASB. But this way, for me at least, they're effectively free — and much more likely to go into production.

Who cares if old editions of JETS and WTJ are missing? I already own them, and lose nothing by their absence. I care more about the new editions being missing, obviously, but if that's fixed reasonably soon, it's not as if I won't have anything useful to read whilst I'm waiting...

Mark Smith said:

displeased.

That word about sums up my feelings. A few other descriptive words that describe my feelings include expected and frustrated.

I've pre-ordered the collection, but I don't expect to keep the pre-order unless Logos makes some serious progress in reaching parity with the Galaxie collections. It also looks like we will be paying hand over fist to get the journals we were paying a mere $50/year with Galaxie.

My .02:

1.  There are far too many missing editions for this to be worth what the price, even with dynamic pricing.

2.  As others say, I see this as a ploy to produce that which CP bidders have said they don't want.

3.  This is far too large a bundle for me, who owns multiple TJLs.

4.  The Journals I want, listed by many in above posts, are not there.

5.  This is quite the let down if this is what Logos was trying to talk up as exciting for new journals in our libary.

6.  I feel I need to say it again since NO ONE at Logos has ever directly repsond to me about it:  Allowing our journal access to languish for 2 years while we could have had Galaxie's version in the meantime more than smacks of greed and control on Logos' part.  

7.  At this time I won't be placing an order for this, and I will continue to pay my $50/year for the online access elsewhere.  

I'm with Mark Barnes. A few things I want, at a better price than I had bid on CP, a few things I'm ambivalent towards that are free, and a bunch of things I already own.

Definitely in. Sometimes the things you are ambivalent towards surprise you in a positive way.