The Bible Speaks Today Series: Old Testament

David Pugh said:

Anyone able to estimate when the set would be complete that the publisher would release in Logos?

Currently only "The Message of Joshua" is missing from the The Bible Speaks Today series, if you go by the protestant Old Testament canon. However, you won't find anything like the shroud of an announcement for this book. The third part, Bible Themes, of course may never be said to be complete.

What bugs me even more is that the publishing of IVP resources in Logos seems to be somewhat drying up - of nearly 900 PrePubs currently, only one is from IVP (an expensive OT bundle lingering for quite some time). While we have seen the black dictionaries some time ago, and I could find a 2013 copyrighted book, there should be much more coming down from them. IVP seems to rather go the "Vyrso road" with Logos - nearly the same number of total resources, 16 of them on PrePub (PrePub being nearly a rare thing on Vyrso).

The argument "we want to complete the series in print - if we ever find an author and have him write it - and maybe even sell one or two of the palettes of paper lying around in our warehouses until we start to begin trying to make money from one of the most-requested series in Logos [at a time when nobody will want our stuff anymore]" still does sound very unconvincing to me.  

However, looking at the IVP Press website, it may be that the wind changes. They seem to convert the BST New Testament series into electronic format (and then selling them DRM-free in PDF, mobi and ePub, which many other publishers would never dare to do) - thus the next logocal step would be to extend this to the OT and the Bible Themes as well. And if they don't want to go Logos, they could put them on Vyrso (regardless of the inadequate format). This may even be the much faster way for us to get the books. I'd like to see them the sooner the better!