Will accordance offer this as well?

[mortenjensen]

Hi

Just saw the sale here: http://media.harpercollinschristian.com/page/ebook-sale-zibbcot-old-testament

 

Will it come in acc as well? Would much prefer to have them in acc!!

 

Morten

[Michel Gilbert]

Hi Morten,

 

Thank you. I recommended these just yesterday to someone who doesn't own Accordance (at least not yet), and who prefers to read books on Kindle. I didn't know they were on sale. I just emailed him and told him the good news.

 

Thanks again.

 

Regards,

 

Michel

[Rick Bennett]

These types of resources are really not suited well for Kindle. The images will not be high-res, there will not be any kind of hyperlinking, indexing, etc., original languages will not render correctly, layout of tables and poetry will probably be wrong, etc. etc. Great price, but if you intend to use them for anything more than surface level reading you will probably be disappointed. 

[R. Mansfield]

Hi

Just saw the sale here: http://media.harpercollinschristian.com/page/ebook-sale-zibbcot-old-testament

 

Will it come in acc as well? Would much prefer to have them in acc!!

 

Morten

 

Morten, remember that there is a huge difference between Kindle ebooks and the titles you get the in Accordance Library. Accordance titles have texts that are tagged by type of content. So, for instance, you can search specifically for Hebrew content in Accordance titles. You can't search for Hebrew in Kindle titles at all. You can only run what I call "shotgun searches" in the Kindle version.

 

Here is a screenshot showing a dozen different search fields for ZIBBCOT alone:

 

 

Plus, Accordance titles are integrated into the entire Accordance Library, allowing amplification from other titles, Research searches, hyperlinking to other titles, parallel support with other commentaries and biblical texts and much more. 

 

Hundreds (sometimes thousands) of hours can go into preparing titles for the Accordance Library. They should never be confused with Kindle ebooks. Equivalent titles will often cost more for Accordance, but as a user myself, I believe you get what you pay for :-)

[ukfraser]

And here is a screen shot of nivac in kindel.

No index to the different passages just a scan showing the labels and a very cut down index to some opening blurb and the end of the book. Nothing useful like chapters and verses. Not even location numbers in the scan so you can jump to where you are going.

 

It is rubbish but i needed a couple of volumes before i could get them when they were on sale in accordance.

 

Accordance is the way to go with these with all the brilliant tagging as mentioned above not to mention linking in a second pane. (fortunately i got them when the kindle versions were also on sale so i didnt waste toooooo much).

 

;o)

 

kindle is great for novels but rubbish for anything technical where you need an index.You are totally reliant on a very poor search. ;o(

[Michel Gilbert]

These types of resources are really not suited well for Kindle. The images will not be high-res, there will not be any kind of hyperlinking, indexing, etc., original languages will not render correctly, layout of tables and poetry will probably be wrong, etc. etc. Great price, but if you intend to use them for anything more than surface level reading you will probably be disappointed. 

 

Hi Rick,

 

I'm not sure whether you were addressing me or the whole Forum; probably both.

 

I'm certainly not trying to persuade any on this Forum to choose Kindle versions over the value-added Accordance ones. I am simply rejoicing that the price point sale of these particular Kindle versions will likely prompt someone I know and love to begin reading these. Perhaps I should have sent a private message to Morten.

 

I've only used the Kindle app (on pcs, Android, and iPad), so I don't know how these books will appear on his actual Kindle. But your comments caused enough alarm for me to purchase Gen and peruse through it in Kindle on three devices - in Ubuntu pc, my BB Playbook, and my Windows Tablet. I have to say the images have as high a resolution as any other image in the same device, I didn't see a table that was misaligned, and, every verse is hyperlinked to the NIV. So I don't think he will be disappointed.

 

I do hope that this person will buy Acc one day and enjoy even more added value.

 

Regards,

 

Michel

[Rick Bennett]

Hi Rick,

 

I'm not sure whether you were addressing me or the whole Forum; probably both.

 

I'm certainly not trying to persuade any on this Forum to choose Kindle versions over the value-added Accordance ones. I am simply rejoicing that the price point sale of these particular Kindle versions will likely prompt someone I know and love to begin reading these. Perhaps I should have sent a private message to Morten.

 

I've only used the Kindle app (on pcs, Android, and iPad), so I don't know how these books will appear on his actual Kindle. But your comments caused enough alarm for me to purchase Gen and peruse through it in Kindle on three devices - in Ubuntu pc, my BB Playbook, and my Windows Tablet. I have to say the images have as high a resolution as any other image in the same device, I didn't see a table that was misaligned, and, every verse is hyperlinked to the NIV. So I don't think he will be disappointed.

 

I do hope that this person will buy Acc one day and enjoy even more added value.

 

Regards,

 

Michel

 

 

I don't think you had bad intentions; I know you support Accordance. I am however very surprised to hear that this volume is as good as you say it is on Kindle. I know an author (for this same publisher) who refuses to allow his books on Kindle because of how poor quality they are (or were in the past).

[Michel Gilbert]

 For what it's worth, it is quite good. Of course, some publishers must take more pride in their ebooks than others.  

[mortenjensen]

Hi again,

I would want to buy it for Accordance by all means. Just wanted to hear, if Accordance has been offered the same deal from Zondervan. It seems as if the publishers provide discounts for all companies using their products from time to time - and the books go on sale everywhere. But not this time, it seems, unfortunately.

It has been on sale some while back, I remember. Are these things circulated routinely, or how does it work?

Morten

[Rick Bennett]

Hi again,

I would want to buy it for Accordance by all means. Just wanted to hear, if Accordance has been offered the same deal from Zondervan. It seems as if the publishers provide discounts for all companies using their products from time to time - and the books go on sale everywhere. But not this time, it seems, unfortunately.

It has been on sale some while back, I remember. Are these things circulated routinely, or how does it work?

Morten

 

HarperCollins runs discounts like this on an almost weekly basis which are typically far below what we will ever offer their titles at, and only in eBook format (Kindle, iBooks, etc.). But, you're also right we do run our own specials with them. These are many times initiated by their marketing department, and sometimes by us.