One of the cheapest biographies (3 in fact) ever, in CP, closing Friday

https://www.logos.com/product/49622/saint-augustine-melanchthon-and-neander-three-biographies

It's down to $2. Let's see if we can get it down to $1 by the end of the week.

It's by the great historian Philip Schaff ("one of the most distinguished church historians who ever lived. He was educated at Tübingen, Halle, and Berlin, and was professor of church history and biblical literature at German Reformed Theological Seminary."), and it's about three important people: Augustine, Melanchthon, and Neander. What's not to love about this?

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Kenneth Neighoff

Thanks for pointing ting this out. Somehow I missed it.

Virgil Buttram

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702756#Comment_702756

On it. [:)]

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702758#Comment_702758

Thanks ordered it.

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702774#Comment_702774

[Y]

JohnB

What's not to love about this?

Thanks Rosie!!

Michael G Parry-Thomas

Thank you

Mark Smith

What a great price!

Kent

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702844#Comment_702844

Maybe in smaller increments. [:D]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702848#Comment_702848

Maybe in smaller increments.

Ha ha. Yes, it would be over the top at $1.50, not quite at $1.25.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702853#Comment_702853

Thanks for pointing this out. Ordered. It looks to be almost to 80% at the $1 price point.

Rosie Perera

We went from about 65% to 80% in about 8 hours. So let's get that $1 dot all the way over the 100% mark. Probably just a couple of handfuls of bidders needed. $1 for a great book of three biographies, 184 pages. Not deeply in depth biographies at that length, but it's not anything to sneeze at. And it will be a regular Logos edition book, with all the great tagging that implies, not a Vyrso eBook. So bid. What are you waiting for?

Sean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702931#Comment_702931

Thanks for pointing out the price drop. I wasn't interested earlier, but I'll give it a go for $2.

And it will be a regular Logos edition book, with all the great tagging that implies,

Hopefully! [;)]

David Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/702935#Comment_702935

May be worth risking a $1 bid for most people, but if you want to be sure to get it bid $2 and avoid the risk
(as it may be a close call by noon on Friday.... )

Ronald Quick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703175#Comment_703175

Logos has had a few CP resources go for $1 - but not that many. I hope this makes it.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703190#Comment_703190

I think this could go for $1. [Y]

Dave M

Much thanks. A great deal!

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703277#Comment_703277

I'm in. Thank you so much![8-|]

David Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703322#Comment_703322

David Wilson

Edging very close now to $1 but no breakthrough yet and not really much time left to get onboard.....

Milkman

Well I'm in for $2.48 Canadian.

Antonius

I am in at $2...

Tom

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703644#Comment_703644

Edging very close now to $1 but no breakthrough yet and not really much time left to get onboard.....

We have all day to get it down to 1 dollor ! [:D]

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703742#Comment_703742

We have all day to get it down to 1 dollor !

It is now $1.00!

Rayner

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703815#Comment_703815

We have all day to get it down to 1 dollor !

It is now $1.00!

Is it possible for publications to drop below $1???

Lew Worthington

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703836#Comment_703836

Arg! I was hoping it would stay at $2.00 so I wouldn't have to get it. (I put in a $1.00 bid just to spite myself.) Now I really have to think about buying a book that I'm sure I'll never read. [:P]

Ronald Quick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703852#Comment_703852

[:P]

maybe Logos will give us 10¢ increments.

Tom

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703644#Comment_703644

Edging very close now to $1 but no breakthrough yet and not really much time left to get onboard.....

It is now at $1

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703836#Comment_703836

Is it possible for publications to drop below $1???

Probably not... but think about this: For it to drop to .50 cents, you would have to have twice as many people on board as you do for $1. Possible, but not likely in the short time allowed.

Furthermore, there is a "per charge" fee to use credit cards, and a significant amount of the $1 goes towards that. I don't think FL would want to lower the price more.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703927#Comment_703927

Cool to see this at $1. Does anyone know if this has ever happened in Community Pricing before?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704308#Comment_704308

Cool to see this at $1. Does anyone know if this has ever happened in Community Pricing before?

We have been here before - https://community.logos.com/forums/p/17921/135176.aspx#135176 for one example

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704312#Comment_704312

Cool to see this at $1. Does anyone know if this has ever happened in Community Pricing before?

We have been here before - https://community.logos.com/forums/p/17921/135176.aspx#135176 for one example

Ah, yes, thanks for the reminder. It still is a pretty rare occurrence.

spitzerpl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704314#Comment_704314

Thanks for pointing this out, Rosie. Almost missed it :-)

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/703852#Comment_703852

Arg! I was hoping it would stay at $2.00 so I wouldn't have to get it. (I put in a $1.00 bid just to spite myself.) Now I really have to think about buying a book that I'm sure I'll never read.

Well, you might never read it, but the point of acquiring a decent-sized research library isn't that you plan to read every single volume, but that next time you're trying to learn something about Church History or the Reformation, say, and you search your well-tagged library for some particular topic or phrase, this book might come up in the search results, and you'll be able to read just the portion of it that is relevant to your query. And that is worth $1, I'd say.

Lew Worthington

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704331#Comment_704331

Well, you might never read it, but the point of acquiring a decent-sized research library isn't that you plan to read every single volume, but that next time you're trying to learn something about Church History or the Reformation, say, and you search your well-tagged library for some particular topic or phrase, this book might come up in the search results, and you'll be able to read just the portion of it that is relevant to your query. And that is worth $1, I'd say.

Of course, I realize that and completely agree. But analogous to what I tell my students regarding biblical interpretation, the real art is in knowing where to draw the line.

So the question is one of opposing forces: "Would I ever miss this resource if I didn't have it?" versus "Would I ever miss this dollar if I didn't have it?" Since we cannot experience both situations (and, for that matter, cannot experience either situation in advance), we just have to guess. My research interests are such that I'm never likely to feel a burning desire even to read links to it in a search.

Put another way, I'll quit rolling this book snowball as soon as I put on the outer layer. (Compare Rockefeller's "Just a little bit more.")

However, underneath all of that is the reality that I'm going to end up buying this book not based on its merits, nor on the merits of having a well-stocked and nicely tagged library, but simply because it's cheap. And I kind of hate when I do that.

And now I'm just listening to myself talk.

Milkman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704364#Comment_704364

Just received this... (see below) How can you go wrong. Sure you may not read it, BUT what if in the future you came across a tag or footnote referencing this and you DIDN'T have it. Woe to you/me BUT what if you did have it? Hmmm. Just think of the self-congratulations you would pile upon your self??

[6][D]

Your community pricing bid for Saint Augustine, Melanchthon, and Neander: Three Biographies was successful, and a Pre-Pub order has been created for you for.

The final community price you will pay for this product was established to be 1.00 on 2/25/2015.

Lew Worthington

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/704592#Comment_704592

Nicely played. Indeed, my life is transformed in unfathomable ways! [:)]