http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/156563487X/
Is digital access to it something that SBL wants to reserve for members?
Good point. I imagine a couple of other such handbooks would be gobbled up by students: Turabian, Chicago, MLA, APA, for example.
I'd buy this.
I wonder if the "majority" of those interested wouldn't already hold membership to SBL. (since they already have access to the handbook through the SBL website.)
I would be interested but (it would seem that way to other too) I would probably only purchase it if it was much less than the associate membership fee, but the fact stated above would be the the reason not to offer a digital version from SBL through L4 -"membership retention".
I have the print version of the SBL Manual of Style (Hendrickson Publishers), but to the best of my knowledge it is not available for download. It's available for sale on Amazon which is where I bought it. There is a supplementary manual for students available for free download on the SBL site. I downloaded and printed it out as a booklet which I keep inserted in the SBL Manual. I've been using it for my thesis. There is a styles template for SBL available to download for EndNote, which I use as my citation manager, and that is very useful. I imagine that SBL want to keep control of their own style manual.
All the style manuals would be a great addition.
Something to consider though, is that desk references (or any printed book for that matter) are cash cows for universities and instructors. Including them with Logos would make it more difficult to get institutions to integrate Logos into their curriculum.
The Student Supplement is available for download, but you must log in as an SBL member to download the SBL Handbook of Style. I have both in PDF, but I would still appreciate having it in Logos.
I wonder if the "majority" of those interested wouldn't already hold membership to SBL.
I have the print version, and the PDF (I'm a member of SBL), but I'd still like it in Logos - it's just more convenient that way.
Yes, it would be good to have these resources.
Then again, if you set Logos to use SBL for its citation style, you don't have to know the style yourself -- just let Logos do it for you... [:)]
(Of course, I'm not serious. I know there will be other cases when you'll need to know it besides when you're copying quotes from Logos.)
Oh I understand why some would want it in Logos. What I ment is that the majority probably wouldn't spend $$ unless it was a "low cost" amount. Since they already have access to it under the fee of membership. For me personally that number $$ would have to be a lot less than the associate membership fee. For others maybe less than the student fee.
At any rate it would be convenient and it's a good resource to have, though I think demand over all might be weak and SBL may want to use it to retain membership, but that is conjecture on my part.
