Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library ship date

Well, I guess the delay just means I'll have to spend time reading other Logos books on my iPad!  That will make the wait bearable.  [:)]

This means that the ship date has been pushed back a few days. We expect that it will be delayed into next week, and possibly longer.

Oh, please, Kent,

Try to drag your feet on the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library until the end of the month!   This has been about as exciting to me as the Zondervan Bible Reference Bundle (87 Vols.)  http://www.logos.com/products/details/5656 release. (And just about as unobtainable!)  The fast work of the new Superman in Pre-Pubs has left a lot of my hopes and dreams in a cloud of dust. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library is the major casualty.

I will put you on my Christmas card list if you can delay it till the Oct 28th.......  wanna fruit cake, too?

Thanks, Kent!  Peace to you!

           Thanks for the post  ...

and  ..       please don't hurry!    *smile*   I (and I'm sure quite a few others!) are still recovering from so many pre-pubs and Hermeneia coming down the shute... 

Kent, I just found your posting the last minute before sending my thoughts and feelings caused by the delay. Thanks for the explanation! I still post what I wanted to write in the first place:

"Today I had
to find out that the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library has been postponed again from Oct. 8^th
to Oct. 15^th, after it had been postponed from 7^th to 8^th
yesterday.

I cannot
help but feel very disappointed. Maybe it’s because I had made every effort to balance
my credit card bank account in advance. Maybe it’s because I cancelled other
pre-pubs/investments because favoring or let’s say prioritizing this one. Or
maybe it’s because I had made a reading plan with resources from this pre-pub
now being delayed. Maybe it’s because the exchange rate was quite good
throughout the last days and it would have been nice to be charged now and not
next week. Maybe it’s because the previous collection I bought for Logos was a
boxed third-party product for which I had to pay the equivalent of about 100
Dollar customs clearance on top of 432 Dollar. Maybe it’s because yesterday was
my birthday and I wanted this pre-pub as my birthday gift.

Actually, I
am still deeply grateful to Logos. I have to admit that I have written articles
I would never have finished or even begun (!) without Logos 4 – due to its resources
in electronic searchable form and the software tools like Bible Word Study, Passage
Guide etc. I like Logos 4, I love it. I need it. So, at these times of disappointment
I start to ask myself if I am too greedy, don’t have enough patience? 4.1
released on Oct. 7^th was a birthday gift – both for the
printing/exporting and for the sentence diagramming. And the beta screenshots
for 4.2 look good! You have built a wonderful software. You deserve thanks and
thanks and thanks.

But I want
to use Logos and that resources for God’s praise. And, maybe it’s because I
have worked in an industry where “just in time” is everything. I still remember
one principle: Never ever inform your customer that you will not deliver on the
promised date. Do it as early as you know you are unable to keep the deadline.
Informing your customer on the very day will cause deep and lasting
disappointment, means loss of reliability, credibility etc.

This
pre-pub is a bundle. If it’s not finished completely, maybe some books are. Couldn’t
you unbundle and release for download at least what you have finished? And deliver
what’s missing later when having finished?

Brothers
and sisters – am I too greedy? Then please pray for me for more humility and patience.
Thanks Logos team and all the contributors of the forum."

That were my feelings before I read Kent's posting. Still one question: Would there be any chance to get such explanations as given by Kent here via email to everybody who ordered the pre-pub. Usually I don"t search the forum for delayed shipping dates. You could prepare standard explanations. I would not care. Just the information that it will be delayed and maybe an apologize...  ... might be a good comfort

Blessings

Joakeim

All the issues with the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library have been resolved. We will process orders for the following Pre-Pubs on June 10:

• Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library (29 Vols.)
• A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus (4 Vols.)
• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, by James H. Charlesworth (2 Vols.)
• Raymond E. Brown Collection (5 Vols.)

Thanks again for your patience over the past few months.