Bible Study Magazine

Not sure if this is the right place to make this suggestion, but I saw no "Contact Us" link on the BSM web site, so here goes.

What about offering online subscriptions? For non-US/Canada residents, the postage cost for the magazine makes it prohibitively expensive. I for one would like to be able to subscribe (initially on a month by month basis) and read it online.

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Alan Macgregor

Yes, me too!

Andy

This would be a great option... postage to the UK would exceed the cost of the magazine itself...

Or, better still, release a version which is readable from within Logos.

Kevin A. Purcell

Just make it available in the Logos iPhone/iPad app.

Alan Macgregor

Kevin

Have you any idea how much iPhones cost in Britain? Apple sells them ranging in price from £350-£550. (Go figure at roughly $1.50 to the £1). [:S]

I could never justify the cost of buying one, even to use the Logos app. By all means make it available in the app but please, not just in the app.

Paul Golder

Not sure if this is the right place to make this suggestion, but I saw no "Contact Us" link on the BSM web site, so here goes.

What about offering online subscriptions? For non-US/Canada residents, the postage cost for the magazine makes it prohibitively expensive. I for one would like to be able to subscribe (initially on a month by month basis) and read it online.

This has been asked and even begged for in the past. Bob's answer was that at some point the archives will be available in Logos, but the main goal of the magazine is to be a print publication.

Matthew C Jones

Bob's answer was that at some point the archives will be available in Logos, but the main goal of the magazine is to be a print publication.

Yes Bob did say that. But it would still be nice if it's second goal would be availability to a worldwide readership. I remember when Commentary on the Psalms by E.W. Hengstenberg (3 Vols.) http://www.logos.com/products/details/5999 was only available by CD and all our foreign users would get stuck with high shipping, customs and wait times. That eventually worked out as a downloadable. If everybody keeps asking, BobP just may resopond favorably to the appeal. Or maybe there is a publishing domain issue involved.

Paul Golder

Yes Bob did say that. But it would still be nice if it's second goal would be availability to a worldwide readership. I remember when Commentary on the Psalms by E.W. Hengstenberg (3 Vols.) http://www.logos.com/products/details/5999 was only available by CD and all our foreign users would get stuck with high shipping, customs and wait times. That eventually worked out as a downloadable. If everybody keeps asking, BobP just may resopond favorably to the appeal. Or maybe there is a publishing domain issue involved.

What would work is what some other magazine publishers do, and that is to contract printing in different regions of the globe, in order to make it available for the same approximate cost everywhere.

Matthew C Jones

contract printing in different regions of the globe,

That would certainly work. But I would still like it in my Logos library. I would even pay a higher subscription rate (shock! [:O] ) to have both formats. And if somebody did not want their hardcopy they could always donate it for free distribution to Doctor's offices, seminaries and libraries for further exposure. My local newspaper has gone as cheap ast $15USD a year for delivery just to keep the presses rolling. They know if circulation drops too low, advertisers won't buy space and the paper will fold (pun recognized.).

Rodney Lake

Great idea Andy, to add it to the program.

Kolen Cheung

online subscriptions

Amen.

I would like it to have a Logos ebook format, then it is becomes so natural. Logos' magazine in Logos4, allowed to search, sync, highlight, print, etc.

Scott K

I would have subscribed to BSM gladly had it included a license for the Logos digital copies once they were made available (since they indicated they were going to make them available electronically at a later date). I didn't want to end up paying for them twice. Besides this, there was the complication of living in Central Asia and getting the magazines to me there in a reliable way... So, I'm waiting for the Logos versions, even if it takes 5-10 years.

JT (alabama24)

Any progress on this?

JohnB

Still no progress as far as I can see towards an electronic edition.

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My house is bulging at the seams and we need to downsize. The last thing I need is more paper magazines. Also extra postage to the UK presumably ups the price. It isn't that I do not prefer reading real books and magazines it is just the space they take up.