Understanding the monetary value of ICC
I am quite happy to get the ICC volume on Esther as the freebie for the fourth day of advent. As I checked it out, I noticed that it indicated that the normal price was $80.95. I was puzzled by that price and perhaps some of you (or Faithlife folks) can provide insight into this: how can a commentary that is more than a century old (public domain?) and must be very outdated in terms of scholarship still sell for this much? Seeking to understand...
I mean, not all of T&T Clark products are that expensive.
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I noticed loads and loads of references and tagging in the ICC Genesis, but have not yet checked out the Esther one.
The main effort is in all the tagging. I don't think that the age of a resource has anything to do with it.
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Shalom Francis!
I was going to write that it's probably the publisher's SRP, but looking at the Bloomsbury (T&T Clark) site I see that the list price is even $3.05 higher than the Logos price!
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Thanks FL for the free commentary!
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H.-J.van der Wal said:
looking at the Bloomsbury (T&T Clark) site I see that the list price is even $3.05 higher than the Logos price!
... and yet they don't need to tag content. Hence the question remains: why are the older volumes of this series so expensive? I ask this not as a complaint, being thankful for the freebie and for the not-too-long-ago sale of older ICC volumes for very cheap.
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Just a thought...this old ICC is mentioned from Aland to be very helpful in the Textual Critisim Study, cause of his many Material he shows.
"Who ever read this old Commentaries will be suprised that he is at the Point where Modern Commentaries take there Knowledge from"
Sascha
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The ICC series in general - in so far as I have used them - have been quite thorough in their treatment. I have not yet looked at the Esther volume, but I do have high expectations.
Granted my two favorite selections are far more current. Cranfield on Romans... I can't remember what I paid for my dead tree set but it was worth whatever I paid for it. Allison on Matthew, yes.
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In just looking through the ICC of Esther, there is a lot of tagging and in my opinion that is why the price is high on these resources. As already been stated, you can see that they are very thorough in their exegetical treatment of the Scriptures.
Logos has done a great job in bringing the ICC commentaries to us, and am delighted to get this resource free.[Y]
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The tagging contributes but in the case of ICC I think it is the royalties payable to the publisher that actually are the driver of the price.
As pointed out by a previous user:
H.-J.van der Wal said:Shalom Francis!
I was going to write that it's probably the publisher's SRP, but looking at the Bloomsbury (T&T Clark) site I see that the list price is even $3.05 higher than the Logos price!
Edit/P.S.
Thanks FL for the free commentary!
And in actual fact if you go to the webpage linked the actual list price is shown as $120 with the online price being $84.00. They saying don't judge a book by its cover could be extended to don't judge a book by it's age.
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