Questions about EEC

I don't really trust the dates on the product page.

Trust it or not, it is the best information you are likely to get.

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I'd love to hear an update, too, if possible.  I noted in another thread that quite a few volumes are "scheduled" to be released in the next 6 months or so according to the website.  I'd love to have an idea of how accurate/realistic those estimates are at this point.

Sorry to hijack this thread and say something "treasonous", but I have a question related to EEC...

Is there any chance that EEC will be released to other Bible software platforms besides Logos/Faithlife platforms (such as Accordance, WORDsearch, etc.)?

Before people want to begin to tar and feather me, here's why I'm asking...

Most Faithlife/Logos/Lexham products I'd rather own "in Logos format". It makes sense to keep many of these products as "Logos exclusive" as it is a means to keep people investing in the Faithlife/Logos ecosystem (which I have invested HEAVILY in, over 8,000 books).

However...

When it comes to EEC, EEC is such an EXCELLENT commentary series, and it is a seriously needed series of commentaries in the academic field. Students, professors, etc., can seriously benefit from EEC, and the more volumes of EEC that can get in the hands of more people, the more that can benefit from this series. The academic world is in serious need of a current, scholarly, affordable (versus some of the other commentary series out there) series of technical commentaries for academic use. EEC is a solid answer to it from the volumes I've evaluated.

As long as the other vendors would cooperate, allowing EEC onto other Bible software platforms such as Accordance or WORDsearch would help get EEC into as many hands as possible, continue funding to help get future EEC volumes into production, and further help EEC cement itself as a new gold standard in academic level commentaries for evangelicals.

Thanks!

No there is good president. Lifeway publishes holman broaden products but they do not restrict sales to only Wordsearch their own in house software. If Lexham allowed others to sell it, they would be receiving royalties and seeing a potential larger distribution. Now the question comes would WS or ACC or even OT be interested in it? Lexham has produced some high quality resources but not too sure there is a demand for them outside Logos circles. But broader distribution so multiple sources is a way to get more acceptance.

-Dan

Dan made some good points in his post. 

Here's some additional tidbits...

For starters, Lexham Press (and Kirkdale Press, another Faithlife/Logos publisher) is already producing their resources in some other platforms such as Kindle, while at the same time "competing" with those platforms such as Kindle on some scale. Vyrso is a "Christian eBook" store and while not completely competing head to head with Kindle by offering secular eBooks, Faithlife/Logos would rather us buy our Christian eBooks from Vyrso before buying them from Kindle or another format since it ties better into the Faithlife/Logos ecosystem. With that said, for die hard Kindle users who want to read books from Lexham Press or Kirkdale Press and have zero chance at investing in the Faithlife/Logos ecosystem, some of those books are available on Kindle where it makes sense for Faithlife/Logos to get those books into the hands of more readers.

In terms of most Lexham Press resources, I am perfectly fine with them remaining as a part of the Faithlife/Logos ecosystem, and in most instances, it makes perfect sense to keep them there. Runge's Discourse OT/NT is a Logos exclusive that makes sense to keep it tied to the Logos ecosystem. Even Lexham Bible Guides feel "made for Logos" and best fit into the Logos ecosystem and would feel out of place on other platforms.

The only resource in this case that is different, is EEC. Here's why...

EEC is clearly trying to position itself as the next "gold standard" in commentaries of its scale. From what I've seen of it so far, it clearly has the potential to do so. As you can tell by another forum thread where I've been asking around about technical/critical commentaries, EEC is a solution that, from what I've seen of it so far, checks all the boxes of a "gold standard" commentary I could use as my main "go to" commentary and recommend to students for years to come. It's current, evangelical, technical/critical/academic, in-depth, handles the language issues well, yet has a clean format that is more approachable than some commentaries. It's also more affordable than other commentaries of its sale (students can pick up the entire set for $700ish, then there's the individual volumes, the fact that Logos does the giveaways and 99 cent sales at time, and the ability to rent it on Logos Cloud starting at $9/month is handy as well).

In order for EEC to be the next "gold standard" commentary, the only thing holding it back is platform access. It's the one resource that if Faithlife/Logos and Accordance, WORDsearch, etc., would be able to pull off a miracle and work together to get it across the board to other platforms, then EEC has a chance to get itself into the hands of as many scholars, students, pastors, etc., as possible and become the standard that its wishing to achieve. 

And if Faithlife/Logos can pull it off better than iTunes for Windows, that would be nice as well. ;-)