Look what I found:
Bible Study Magazine Book Bundle (9 vols.) $89.95
Thanks for drawing my attention to this.
Do we know if there will be dynamic pricing?
There is dynamic pricing. My price is $77+.
For me it shows a price of $77 and some change since I have the last book in my library.
I just wish there was a larger discount for those who have bought and still subscribe to the Bible Study Magazine.
Do we know if there will be dynamic pricing? There is dynamic pricing. My price is $77+.
It didn't say but I see it now.
I totally agree with this. I had invested in every issue from the beginning but could not justify not having it digital format.
Look what I found: Bible Study Magazine Book Bundle (9 vols.) $89.95 Speak the Word: 12 Christian Leaders on Communicating the Truth Spread the Word: 12 Christian Leaders on Church Growth Study the Word: 12 Christian Leaders on Bible Study The Gospel Works Everywhere: 14 Inspiring Stories from Around the World The Bible in the Real World: 31 Inspiring Interviews Seeing Scripture as Art: Creative Expression in Biblical Literature The Bible in Its Ancient Context: 23 Fresh Insights When the Bible is Complicated: Answers to Perplexing Topics I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible
I applaud Faithlife for (FINALLY!!!) making their paper Bible Study Magazine into digital. However, I am shocked at the price! For this price FineWoodworking offers 1975-2014 - 40 years worth of thousands of articles, charts and building plans, etc.
EDIT: After reading the blog post, it shocks me even more: there are only 38 BSM issues in print (versus 40 years of the FW for example) but only 35% of it made into the digital bundle for $89.95. In other words, you are paying $89.95 for roughly 13.5 issues.
At the end of the day, this is content you cannot get anywhere else, and if you must have it, you'll pay. I think I'll go to my neigborhood dentist office to read the paper version.
I believe Faithlife is really fond of it's content (similar to their guides) and keep on making the mistake of overpricing. Not for me. I just cancelled my Gold upgrade because did not feel (after trying them out) that new features, datasets, etc. were worth the asking price.
no page numbers, no buy.
We are now seeing the real reason Logos did not want to do a digital subscription for the magazine. They had a vision of how they could get us to pay twice for the content. Bad form IMHO.
There are the Crossgrade packages if you just want the features and don't want to spend a ton on the main packages.
I was aware of that. I checked the new datasets and don't find them very useful for me.
I might have been tempted if there was more of the actual Bible study content from the magazine. (8 Weeks, Greek, the articles from each issue's Bible theme, etc.)
There's quite an emphasis on interviews and profiles in this bundle. Which are interesting to read (once), but not at this price. To me, the value of a digital BSM is the study resources that I can call up during lesson planning just like all my commentaries and other resources. There's some of that in this bundle, but not enough for me at that price.
I've come to accept that what I need a digital version of BSM for, and what Logos is willing to give, are probably never going to be in sync. My print subscription ends in a few months and auto-renew has already been turned off, so they've lost me. It's simply not efficient for me to be paging through paper back issues to find something useful I need for lesson prep.
Look what I found: Bible Study Magazine Book Bundle (9 vols.) $89.95
I just visited the product page and it shows that it's on sale for 50% off = $44.98.
(I also tried it WITHOUT being signed in and the price was the same, so this is NOT any sort of dynamic pricing. They just put it on sale, possibly (likely?) in response to forum feedback.)
At that price, I picked it up. Thanks Team Logos!
CLARIFICATION: It is apparently 50% off WITH A NEW SUBSCRIPTION. (I had let mine lapse and just renewed it a few days ago.)
My price is clearly dynamic pricing at $38 - if you have other discounts such as academic discounts that give lower prices, they may override dynamic pricing.
Yeah I'm showing $38 also. And I do not have a magazine sub. I checked without being signed in and its $45. So its 50% off.
I have to agree there is only two titles that really look like being Bible Study focused content, well three, but I already own the third title. Even now at 50% off it still is over-priced when I see only two titles of value. They have missed the boat in terms of the content they are putting into digital format.
mwk67 if you are wanting the 8 week bible studies from BSM these have already been published in digital format:
https://www.logos.com/product/42409/not-your-average-bible-study-series
I wonder if Logos could give an update on this or change the copy to reflect a new release date for the final two volumes.
Here is the copy:
When you purchase this bundle, Speak the Word, Spread the Word, Study the Word, The Gospel Works Everywhere, The Bible in the Real World, The Bible in Its Ancient Context, and I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible will download immediately. The two remaining volumes, Seeing Scripture as Art and When the Bible is Complicated will download automatically as they are completed. The projected completion date for these two volumes is 12/22/14.
I know it says projected, but an update would still be nice
