I received this e-mail:
You are receiving this email because you placed a Pre-Pub order on one or more of the following products.
Your Pre-Pub order(s) have been updated accordingly to reflect the new lower prices, so you do not need to do anything to take advantage of the savings.
That is great news! [Y]
I think you'll save 100% when they never pass go. Some WERE almost into development. We'll call these 'the good Samaritans' (for resources that live their total lives in prepub-land ... like the Samaritan Penteteuch).
I think you'll save 100% when they never pass go.
That is a discouraging statement but at least the new price gives it a better opportunity to pass 100% although more bids will likely be needed.
I'd agree. A LOT more bids. I think 'prepubs' conceptually offer a low-risk solution to digitizing books. The problem occurs on the margins. Books that are foundational to a group. Might be a commentary, a leader's writings, or in OL, as these are. 'Ain't going to happen.'
Same issue occurs with Bibles. They (nicely) price them affordably. But then, to prepub them, the need-ers need to be pretty significant. Ain't going to happen.
Logos' perspective is thousands of books with minimal demand. The customer's perspective is to settle on a platform that will likely affordably suit their needs. Never-happen prepubs mislead, in this regard. And in the specific case of the above encyclopedias, doubling the cost at the last minute, and no apology/explanation just means they're not serious. Another line in the database.
I have to confess that I re-pre-ordered the Hebrew and Greek encyclopedias.
I hope that by the time they are ready, I have the money.
Neither one may not happen soon. [:D]
Whoa. That moves things into the realm of vaguely-possible-but-still-really-expensive-for-my-student-budget, instead of normal Brill pricing.
