OFFICIAL: Lexham Press is joining Baker Publishing Group

I’m excited to announce that Lexham Press is being acquired by Baker Publishing Group. Baker is one of our key publishing partners, and this move deepens our relationship for the long haul.

This is great news for Lexham readers who want more availability of print resources. It’s also great news for Lexham authors, as Baker has nearly a century of Christian publishing expertise and a broad readership base. With this new partnership, we’re ensuring Lexham’s best-in-class content will reach even more students of Scripture for generations to come.

Lexham titles will continue to be a backbone of Logos libraries, and Logos will continue to have digital rights to Lexham content. Logos will still own, maintain, and even create select digital-only titles like the Lexham Research Commentaries. Although the names might change, you shouldn’t notice any change in your Logos app or on our storefront.

If you’re a longtime Lexham Press reader, you may know the name Jesse Myers. He’s currently the president and CEO of Baker Publishing House, but he served as publisher of Lexham for some time. It’s one of many reasons we know that Lexham content, authors, and employees will be in good hands.

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NichtnurBibelleser

Will there be a benefit from this for Verbum / Catholic / Orthodox users, too?

Steven MacDonald

Will Logos continue to offer new Logos Research Edition books with all of the useful tagging?

Matt Bennett

Will Logos continue to offer new Logos Research Edition books with all of the useful tagging?

Yes, we will continue to offer a growing catalog of new Logos Research Edition books.

Joshua Lee

This apparently broke the presale for Unseen Realm (https://www.logos.com/events/heiser) because all physical books were pulled from Logos.com. Is it possible to work out an exception to allow people who thought they had until Sept. 30th to still preorder the hardcover book and get the Logos research edition thrown in for no additional cost?

Matt Bennett

Will there be a benefit from this for Verbum / Catholic / Orthodox users, too?

This change will not affect the availability of Verbum or Catholic and Orthodox resources on Logos.

Edward T. Palmer

Would Lexham continue to publish academic titles (like those in the Studies in Scripture and Biblical Theology series) or would academic titles now be published under Baker Academic?

Chris Taylor

What was the relationship between Logos and Lexham?

Joshua Walker

For some reason, my mind fabricated that Crossway and Lexham Press had a relationship. 😂

scooter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380540#Comment_1380540

Logos owned Lexham. Lexham was their imprint.

Roger Pitot

Does this mean some of the long outstanding Lexham volumes that we've been waiting for for years (Geographic and Context commentaries for example) will get published sooner?😀

Beloved Amodeo

Will pricing be affected? Baker leans towards a premium on the price of its offerings; and is resistant to sizable discounts on its catalogue. Will Logos retain control over pricing and will the Lexham brand retain its name?

Kyle G. Anderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380592#Comment_1380592

Both Volumes 1 and 2 of the Geographic Commentary: Historical Books are wrapping up. We just started some annotation work on them and then produce them as Logos editions. We're pushing hard for a December release for at least Volume 1.

Josiah Young

This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing the update! It makes me wonder, what does the transition indicate about Logos’ priorities? Are they offloading content production to focus more on software development? Will AI do more of the aggregation work they were attempting with some of the Lexham resources (e.g., research commentaries, theology resources for Factbook, etc.)? Will Logos as research software begin to accommodate broader audiences beyond biblical research? I love Logos and am heavily invested, but I think about its future too and just wonder about these things sometimes. I also really like the Baker commentary series on the Old and New Testaments as well as some of their other resources, so I’m optimistic about where this transition will take Lexham.

Brian Kent

Congrats on the sale!

What does this mean for the unreleased volumes in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary 49 volume set?

Ronald Quick

Does this have anything to do with Lexham no longer offering the print copies of the Prayers from the Church series? I had planned on purchasing the hard copies, but had to go to Amazon to find them.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380698#Comment_1380698

Can you provide a link to Logos or Amazon … I've not seen this series.

Beloved Amodeo

@MJ. Smith

I believe he is referring to this series:

https://www.logos.com/product/301624/lexham-press-prayer-bundle?queryId=41189b5234b32ba66b96a2698cb1d644

as hardbound (some are paperback) books are not being sold at this time by Logos, but are available (at least the few I checked) on Amazon.

Ronald Quick

Here's the books I am referring to.

Prayers of the Church (4 book series) Hardcover Edition

Cale Judd

Three of the digital volumes are available at https://www.logos.com/product/396196/prayers-of-the-church-series%2C but note that they can be purchased individually for less than the bundle price.

Ronald Quick

The digital versions are still available. It's the hardcopies that I was interested. They are very well done and the set would look nice on a desk.

Cale Judd

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380787#Comment_1380787

Got it. I didn't understand that the volumes at Amazon are the Lexham Press hardback volumes (3 in stock and 1 available for pre-order).

Beloved Amodeo

@Ronald Quick

It's after hours at Logos so I can't determine the exact information on the set you're interested in. But, I can confirm that your suspicions as to the result of the new relationship between Baker and Logos now allows for an immediate benefit to the customer. You may be able to obtain the set through Baker House Books.

I received an email from my rep in response to an inquiry I made regarding Fount of Heaven. Here is the link he provided.

https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/9781683596288_fount-of-heaven

Edit: I was able to find all four books you are interested in. Books > Browse > Search > Prayers of the Church.

Ronald Quick

@Beloved Amodeo

Thanks for the link and taking time to get more information.

John R. Gentry

Interesting. Does this mean we will finally have a print version of the Lexham English Bible? :-)

DMM

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380512#Comment_1380512

It doesn't seem like they are still honoring it if you hadn't already ordered it from them. They did put up a new link to order the book from Baker, but there's no mention of the Logos edition.

https://bakerbookhouse.com/pages/friends-of-mike-heiser

It's uncertain how or if they are still honoring the digital edition. The inside of the book states the following:

However, the link now just takes you to Baker Books, with no mention of how to redeem it (previously, you would have provided a copy of your receipt, and the book would have been added to your account). There were only two books that this was offered on - The Unseen Realm Expanded Edition and Reading the Psalms as Scripture. I hope they take this into consideration, or else everyone who preordered it from Amazon or other retailers would not be able to get the free book that it says is included.

Frank Hodges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380592#Comment_1380592

This is exactly where my mind went. Will we finally be getting EEC?

DMB

I didn't see any significance. Until I noticed almost all of my OL (almost 300 resources) is Lexham Press (everything from LXX's to Latin to Strack).

I assume (without evidence) it's a death-knell for FL OL development?

NichtnurBibelleser

I'm not sure where you are heading with this:

I didn't see any significance. Until I noticed almost all of my OL (almost 300 resources) is Lexham Press (everything from LXX's to Latin to Strack).
I assume (without evidence) it's a death-knell for FL OL development?

Regarding OL I first think of "Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft" - whether in print or in Logos/Verbum:

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380951#Comment_1380951

Quite true. Query your library Lexham Press, and notice all the OL development that I assume is shifting out of FL.

Ronald Quick

Is it possible to have the Faithlife Study Bible released in print again?

DAL

Wow I wonder what the future of the EEC will be! Soon many titles won’t be included or will be removed from future base packages. Baker already pulled that off years ago when Logos 4 launched! Not sure what to think of this to be honest. It’s like sizing down and let’s start selling stuff before the ship sinks. 4 CEO’s within the last 5 years! Bob, Vic, Bill and now Chris. I hope and pray things are going well and that Logos stays in business for decades to come, but sometimes some of these changes kind of make you wonder what’s really going on at Logos.

DAL

Steven MacDonald

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1380984#Comment_1380984

I thought the whole point was to broaden the selection of books we could get. Simply selling of your book division does not give me warm fuzzies either. Time will tell. Hopefully they will continue to produce more original language tools etc.

Ronald Quick

"4 CEO’s within the last 5 years! Bob, Vic, Bill and now Chris. I hope and pray things are going well and that Logos stays in business for decades to come, but sometimes some of these changes kind of make you wonder what’s really going on at Logos."

@DAL - I've had the same thought myself.