Who has the oldest pre-pub order on your list of orders? Just as a fun thing - they may want to check and see if someone fell asleep at their desk!
My entry - Oxford Latin Dictionary [CD-ROM], pre-ordered on Jan. 10, 2007! Three years ago next week!
I take this from the first line of the item description: "Fifty years in the making" You've only been waiting 3??? [;)]
I ordered the Hebrew Pronunciation Add-in September 23, 2007.
9/21/2006 Sahidic Coptic Collection (still gathering interest by the way).
Oxford Latin Dictionary [CD-ROM] - 7/22/05
W.E. Crum's Coptic Dictionary - 12/29/05
I preordered the Oxford Latin Dictionary on July 22, 2005 when it was first offered on pre-pub. I believe it's the oldest one out there. the next oldest is Crum's Coptic Dictionary which I preordered on Dec 22, 2005.
I would like to see who has the oldest pre-pub that isn't still gathering interest!
In Christ,
Jim
I ordered my oldest prepub, SPCK Gospel Studies Collection, on the same day - 1/10/2007!
I ORDERED THE UBS NEW TESTAMENT HANBOOK SERIES AS MY FIRST PRE-PUB ON 7/17/2003. I THINK THE PRE-PUB PROGRAM STARTED AROUND THAT TIME.
I would like to see who has the oldest pre-pub that isn't still gathering interest! In Christ, Jim
I can speak for the Oxford Latin Dictionary referenced by a few people, that's under contract. I have at least one other from 2007 that's under contract too!
Of mine that are still "Gathering Interest" I have the Northwest Semitic Collection pre-ordered on 9/28/2006. Of those that have moved to "Under Development" I have the Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database pre-ordered on 11/7/2007.
I actually have two that are earlier on the list of pre-publications, which is sorted by date. However they do not report the date that they were placed on pre-publication. As a matter of fact, none of the pre-publications that I selected for "Download" list a date that they were pre-ordered.
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Actually the products that I selected for download do have a date. Just not on their individual product page but on the pre-publication page. So the oldest I have is the Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period pre-ordered on 8/13/2006.
Does anyone know when the Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database is slated to be shipped?
Only three years.... Logos is working at light speed... only DoT can work at geological speeds. [;)]
I've lived in Atlanta , GA (late '60s), & Wichita, KS (80s). With apologies to the fine men & women actually working these projects in both states... In Atlanta, there was a song about never-ending construction on Peachtree (one of the main drags near Ga Tech). I no longer remember the verses, only the refrain:
They're tearing up Peachtree again, again,They're tearing up Peachtree again, again.
And in WIchita, someone penned this joke in reference to never-ending construction on Kellog, the main East-West route through the city (aka US-54):
5 billion years from now, do you know what it will mean when the sun goes out? They'll have to finish construction on Kellogg in the dark.
We're obviously seeing GREAT progress from Logos. [:D][;)]
I too pre-ordered the Oxford Latin Dictionary in spring 2007. Won't someone from Logos tell us what is going on? My paper copy won't last much longer ...
Martin Davies
only DoT can work at geological speeds.
That reminds me of a quote from a local traffic report: "The new North Carolina state tree is the orange barrel" [:D] I think some workers may have spent their entire career on I-85 through Salisbury, NC. It is very nice traveling through there now that it is finally complete.
On Topic: None of my pre-pubs are older than last February, not even a year old yet.
My oldest order is Latin Oxford Dictionary also, Jan 10, 2007.
And in WIchita, someone penned this joke in reference to never-ending construction on Kellog, the main East-West route through the city (aka US-54): 5 billion years from now, do you know what it will mean when the sun goes out? They'll have to finish construction on Kellogg in the dark.
Bill,
The last time I was in Wichita, they still hadn't finished working on Kellogg. It was a real mess.
Didn't order it when it first came out , but Barnes Notes has to top the "oldest pre pub " product list.
Barnes Notes isn't a pre-pub yet (rather, it's just a pipe-dream [:)]). So no one at Logos is working on it---unlike the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which should be on someone's plate at Logos. Maybe Bob fired that individual. [:P]
Who has the oldest pre-pub order on your list of orders?
Certainly not me, but it was quite interesting to sort the prepub list by Oldest (http://www.logos.com/products/search?Status=Pre-Pub&start=0&sort=oldest&pageSize=60). I would e g never have guessed that so many JS?TS OT collections had been there so long.
I have suspected for a while that projects that projects that draw limited interest in pre-pub are not given priority attention in production. If a project goes through pre-pub quickly, then it is given priority in production appears to be the general rule.
Wow! Over four years ago. The Oxford Latin Dictionary is quickly approaching 5 years! What was the pre-pub price back then?
How can I not find this to be a bit ridiculous?
I preordered the Oxford Latin Dictionary on September 15, 2005 so I thank you latecomers for helping make it a reality soon . 5+ years and counting...
My second oldest under contract resource is the Qumran database, preordered on November 6, 2007. Unfortunately, neither of these have an estimated date of completion.
Well, I've only been following things for a few months, but in those few months my experience has certainly been the opposite. The Catholic Theology and Dogma Collection seems to have been in prepub longer than most, but once it finally reached 100%, it was put on the fast track and is due out this month. The same goes for those two resources that have left CP recently: as I understand it they were both moved there after lingering on prepub for a very long time, but now they too are due out this month. Apart from all those course books that shipped yesterday, I don't think I've seen anything go through development as fast as these three. So I'd come to the conclusion that when books have taken a very long time to gather enough interest, Logos tries to have pity on those who have waited longest by letting such books jump the queue.
Though of course there are other things coming into consideration as well. Presumably any one of their text development teams can do a decent job with an English monograph, but they can't have too many who are qualified to deal with Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew or Coptic. From what I've read in other threads the Apostolic Fathers interlinear, for example, is worked on for some weeks, and then something else has to take precedence for the next few months, and then it gets worked on again for some weeks, and so on. That's the problem with being a relatively small company, I guess. And then there's always the publisher...
My oldest "gathering interest" pre-pub is the Samaritan Pentateuch Bundle, ordered 12/17/2008. The product itself no longer exists, but it's still listed in my pre-pubs.
Well, I've only been following things for a few months, but in those few months my experience has certainly been the opposite.
I have been around for about six years, and it seems to me some get developed very fast, and some terribly slow. I agree with the poster earlier who guessed it must just be a priority problem of putting resources on the project. We assume every resource is getting maximum people working on it, that may not be the case.
I preordered the Oxford Latin Dictionary on July 22, 2005 when it was first offered on pre-pub. I believe it's the oldest one out there. the next oldest is Crum's Coptic Dictionary which I preordered on Dec 22, 2005. Wow! Over four years ago. The Oxford Latin Dictionary is quickly approaching 5 years! What was the pre-pub price back then? How can I not find this to be a bit ridiculous?
I obviously can't count. [:O]
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