Just saw this at LOGOS.COM:
Word Biblical Commentary (59 Volumes) for $40.67. Sounds like a good price, unless I am missing something.
I would guess that is because you already own all but one or two volumes, I think that you are seeing a bespoke upgrade price.
I own the 59 volume set - at least that is what my library reports. If you click on the link in my post, what does it say?
On the other hand, when I log out entirely from my account and follow the link - I get the $599 price. So you may be right - but then I wonder what I am missing? I'll give Sales a call.
It tells me:
Your Price $0.00
$600 for me.
Jerry
Very strange - Sales could not tell me what the $40.67 is supposed to cover. "Don't spend the $40.67 - it would be a waste of money."I can tell you that it was not a helpful conversation with sales (most of mine are not). They had no way of telling me what I might be missing other than that there are "three" volumes that are coming out of pre-pub which might be what is being referred to. But Dave could not tell me what those three volumes were. Anybody on the forums know?
It shows $81 on mine... Of the titles that are shown on the Logos page, I am missing 5 of them which ends up being a little more than $16 per missing titles
Is there a prepub or recent release?
Floyd, personally I'm not interested in any of the Word Biblical Commentaries, but those three are: Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 18B: Job 38–42, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 32: Micah–Malachi (Revised) , Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 37a: Acts 1–14
It tells me: Your Price $0.00 100% OFF
100% OFF
Me too.
We have an internal tool (available to Sales) that will tell them what volumes in a collection you're missing. I'll remind them about its existence.
In the WBC 59 Volume collection, you don't currently own: 18A (Job 21-37), 19rev (Ps 1-50, Revised), 24rev (Isa 1-33, Revised), 25rev (Isa 34-66, Revised). You would get all four volumes for $40.67.
Well that's really neat! Just click on the commentary to see if you're missing any. I don't recall anyone else having that feature.
EDIT: WBC: check! ($0.00) Hermeneia: check! ($0.00) Got a server warning on the Hermeneia for a questionable certificate (Wistia.com).
AYB: check! ($0.00) (I can't believe these prices; what a deal!!)
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Thanks, Bradley.
Did the trick - spent the $40.67 and got the four books Bradley mentioned. Thanks for the feedback. I have also ordered the pre-pubs currently available.
Thank you everybody for the assistance this evening.
Might be worth reminding newer forum members that Commentaries such as WBC tend to "grow" a little with time as new volumes are added, some are replaced by volumes on similar scope by new authors and some are revised by their origial authors to account for additional scholarship.
This being said, WBC has grown since originally released for Logos in CD format (by Thomas Nelson). One of the things this means that you need to be VERY careful when buying CDs of WBC from other than Logos or Nelson, you need to ensure the CD you are buying is the CURRENT one with 59 volumes and NOT one of the earlier ones with 58 volumes or 54 volumes (which are still around and occasionally surface on Amazon and eBay etc, and often NOT with a price lower than Logos currently charge for the full 59 volumes.)
For those who think the current Logos price is a unreasonable, I would suggest you try either directly from Thomas Nelson at $1,199.99http://www.thomasnelson.com/word-biblical-commentary-cd-rom-59-volumes.html
or if you prefer a used copy, try Amazon (note this is the earlier 58 volume version) http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0785252703/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr/183-7290122-6044343?ie=UTF8&condition=used
Myself I prefer to deal directly with Logos.....
Did the trick - spent the $40.67 and got the four books Bradley mentioned. Thanks for the feedback. I have also ordered the pre-pubs currently available. Thank you everybody for the assistance this evening.
You are probably still missing Volume 8, Judges which was released in 2011 AFTER the current 59 volume set was assembled and makes the number of volumes currently available 60.http://www.logos.com/product/8806/word-biblical-commentary-vol-8-judges
[quote user="David J. Wilson"] You are probably still missing Volume 8, Judges which was released in 2011 AFTER the current 59 volume set was assembled and makes the number of volumes currently available 60.http://www.logos.com/product/8806/word-biblical-commentary-vol-8-judges
My library shows 63 volumes in the "Word Biblical Commentary" series. Volume 8:Judges is included in that 63. Thanks for letting me know of the possibility.
what happend with Acts 15-28?
Good point!
According to the BestCommentaries website, the Acts 15-28 volume came out in 2010, and the Acts 1-14 volume comes out in 2013. The problem is that Logos is offering the newer volume on prepub, but not the older one, which has already been released!
Any thoughts from Logos? Did Logos list the wrong one by accident? FYI - the pre pub page says that the volume was released in 2011… I am not sure how to reconcile that info with BestCommentaries…
May I have the link to buy the missing 4 volumes for $40 please?
[quote]May I have the link to buy the missing 4 volumes for $40 please?
The link is in my original post - but remember, that $40.67 price was a individualized price based on what I owned. Not sure how LOGOS' dynamic pricing did the calculation. Three of the four were "revised" books from what I already owned so that may have offset some of the difference.
See Bradley's note for the exact content of the missing volumes. Also, hit the link in my OP to see what kind of offer you are being made for any missing volumes. As I mentioned earlier, Sales was not particularly helpful in tracking down in what I owned and did not own. Whether they would match a similar offer to you, I do not know. It might be worth a call to Sales on Monday to see if they could help.
what happend with Acts 15-28? Good point! According to the BestCommentaries website, the Acts 15-28 volume came out in 2010, and the Acts 1-14 volume comes out in 2013. The problem is that Logos is offering the newer volume on prepub, but not the older one, which has already been released! Any thoughts from Logos? Did Logos list the wrong one by accident? FYI - the pre pub page says that the volume was released in 2011… I am not sure how to reconcile that info with BestCommentaries…
From what I know, Steve Walton has been working on these two volumes for quite some time now. They are both not available currently. There is a tentative date for Acts 1-14 as later this year. If memory serves me correctly, there have been a number of supposed publication dates for these two volumes—I personally remember seeing a 2008 publication date for vol. 1 a few years back. Commentaries are a tricky business, with many, many delays. For example, the NIGTC on 1-3 John, which is being written as we speak by D. A. Carson, was originally supposed to be published at least a decade ago.
When you get the chance, look at the author forwards in some of the major commentaries. You will not be surprised to see some give an indication of just how long it took for them to get their manuscript to the press.
One last nugget. The great Pauline scholar E. Earle Ellis was scheduled to write the ICC for 1 Cor. He was at work on that for years, and at the time of his untimely death he made it only as far as 1 Cor 7.
Cliff
Thanks Cliff. [:)]
