Logos: Steve Ray Collection PrePub and Verbum+

I have already alerted Andrew about this. He's looking into it.

I too was concerned about this, and by email I was advised by the Logos Support Department to cancel my pre-pub and just purchase the Gospel of John after it went live. So I did that and cancelled my pre-pub order after upgrading to Capstone+. 

But if it is possible to place a pre-pub order for just the Gospel of John so that I can still take advantage of the discount, I would love to do that. I had placed my pre-pub order for this the moment that was possible, as I love Steve Ray's work.

Thanks, Logos, for looking into this.

That's a very good point. I hadn't considered the possibility that the two books might not be available individually after it leaves pre-pub. This indeed sounds like something Logos needs to resolve.

fgh said:

I haven't heard anything further, but Andrew said that "I’m going to look into this, especially the Steve Ray problem. Thanks for the heads up", so I assume he is.

Have you received a response to your query from Andrew?

Advice I got (per email from Sales) was to cancel the pre-pub and pick up the second book after release as an individual.
Or it may be better to get it per dynamic pricing on the bundle (whichever may be less).

Would it not have been better just to dynamically price the bundle ?

On the surface of it I feel as Logos is doing the wrong thing in this instance. They love to sprout you only pay once for a resource - but if this was totally true all collections would have dynamic pricing. I've come to see you only pay once as a throw away marketing line.

However dynamic pricing on Capstone +  meant I got an extremely good price that added a lot more value to my library than what I actually paid.  So in the overall wash of things even if I pay the prepub price I still come out a winner by a long stretch. 

We haven't had an official posting by Logos on the situation and there may even be publishing requirements that have their hand limited in what can be done - I don't have all the facts, and may never have them.   So why I personally feel they could have handled this and other situations better, I have received so much from them over the years this one is not worth boycotting the product in order to make a protest - an official answer from Logos would be appreciated though to close of the matter.

I believe you fgh, never thought for a moment you made it up, but i don't see a personal correspondence  between a customer and a company representative as an adequate response from to a question asked on a public forum. I  really appreciate what you have communicated and your efforts to get that answer so if what I said implied I doubted  what you said or the value of it  I apologize. I simply believe Logos should answer it here themselves, rather than leave it up to a customer to become their spokesperson.

You might save $5 or so by waiting for them to break it up (which Andrew said they'd do "right after it ships"). If it gets included in L6, you'd save pretty much the whole price. Books in Capstone are only about $2 each.

But only you can decide if it's worth waiting.

Steve said:

Let's wait and see what the price is.  Who knows.

I see that the collection is now in publication.  Although it is not broken up, I do get dynamic pricing for the remaining volume ... $15.46.

What do you think?

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fgh said:

You might save $5 or so by waiting for them to break it up (which Andrew said they'd do "right after it ships"). If it gets included in L6, you'd save pretty much the whole price. Books in Capstone are only about $2 each.

But only you can decide if it's worth waiting.

Your advise is always good.  Have just received the Book on John. Have read the section that 'caught my eye'.  For me it was worth not waiting.

Thanks.

Steve said:

Although it is not broken up, I do get dynamic pricing for the remaining volume ... $15.46.

What do you think?

I'm glad they changed their mind and decided on dynamic pricing instead of breaking it up. That explains the better price.

Though I think I'll still wait for a sale or for L6. Or perhaps I'll ask a sales rep to quote me a price if I need  it. For the moment I've got quite enough to read, and this is going to be a very expensive Logos year, with Fathers of the Church and several other expensive prepubs.