Dynamic Pricing Audiobook Bundles

I own "The Cross of Christ" in Logos (and the excellent audiobook in Audible), but would like to get the audiobook in Logos. However, it is currently only available in the bundle, which costs $31. Since the book was $22, I can't stomach the cost without dynamic pricing. Audiobooks are new enough (and handled strangely enough) in the Logos catalog, that I can't tell if there is any discount going on for the purchase of the bundle, since it seems some books are available as audiobooks and some as bundles, but never both.

Even so, Is a $22 audiobook and a $22 book sold together as a $31 bundle (which seems like a pretty steep discount for the way Logos handles two books), that would make my dynamic price just over $15, which I would be happy to do.

Is there a reason that this is not implemented? IVP is the publisher, and they certainly fall within the dynamic pricing guideline of "everyone from A to Y."

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JT (alabama24)

If you want to see if dynamic pricing is at play, visit the page in another browser which isn't logged into your account. I just did, no discount.

Question though: why do you want the audiobook in logos if you already own it elsewhere? Is there an advantage I don't know about?

DBR

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798756#Comment_798756

I would second that request for dynamic pricing with audio books except for a different book. I have Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper and would like to get the audio, but only if it has dynamic pricing. Crossway has dynamic pricing on everything else, but not on audiobooks. Maybe it is because the publisher of the audio, christianaudio Hovel, doesn't accept dynamic pricing.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798756#Comment_798756

Question though: why do you want the audiobook in logos if you already own it elsewhere? Is there an advantage I don't know about?

There is probably not an advantage big enough to justify much money. I was thinking that it might be neat to be able to search for a section I remember and then begin playing from that specific location, instead of finding the chapter in Logos, switching to a different program and then going to the chapter and using the slider to try and find the precise word.

It is a minor thing, but when I saw the audiobook version in Logos on PrePub, I thought about it as an idea and decided to wait to see if there would be dynamic pricing, or the audiobook by itself. I just remembered, and was surprised when there was not.

I can't figure out why Logos sells some audiobooks bundled with the book and some by themselves but never(?) both. I can get The Cross of Christ and Don't Waste Your Life (incidentally) in big audiobook combos without the text, so they are not inexorably bundled.