Anchor Yale individual volume sale

[miguel1981]

This has probably been addressed already but couldnt find the thread as to why isnt there an option for individual volume sales for anchor yale commentaries?

[Helen Brown]

The Commentary Volumes section lists the individual commentaries and sections that are available for individual purchase. Anchor is currently available in large sections but not individual volumes.

 

Our answer as to why is always that it requires extra work to develop and maintain the separate volumes, and usually we sell very few of them. That said we are slowly working through the major sets and making them available in volumes. We should do Anchor this year.

[Unix]

I'm not criticising anyone's situation, priorities, vocation, and excistense of a budget in any way, but personally I see being a Bible Study software user as sometimes requring a lot of money. I've always realized that I'm not going to get away with avoiding all big purchases or even just postponing them, but that on occasion I have to pay what it actually costs to have a satisfying library even when it's large amounts at a time.

With that said, needs of course differ. Such as if You are only researching a limited subset of the Scriptures.

And with all that said, I maintain a huge list of commentary volumes that I recommend, You can find the link somewhere in my info. So I'm fully aware that to buy individual volumes is in itself a good strategy.

 

Even so, I first bought the AYBRL with an unused extra spare account that still no-one is using, that is for a co-author or possibly for girlfriend, then the AYBC NT -set under Accordance, and finally two Years ago the AYBC OT -set under Accordance. It still seems to me to be a very good choice I did, to do it that way. I can upgrade when the upgrade paths are on a sale and am not dependent on upgrading the entire AYB series in one go each time - meaning I still to some extent get to prioritise what new volumes I need quickly and which ones can wait at least if it's a split between the OT and NT.
I've also bought a couple of AYBC volumes as printed matter that are not digitized and already had a good occasion to use one.

 

So I mostly buy sets actually and am fully content with what's not available as individual volumes. With printed matter I don't have to but it also works differently than Bible Study software, for example I recently lost a shipment. Printed matter also in some way incures costs for storage depending on how much shelf-space is needed, and whether it looks good or looks to crowded in the appartment, in my case it looks good.
Oaktree should use the possibility to fully split up sets at a time when it's best for them, if ever.

With printed matter, as the publisher doesn't have much of a choice what to offer: A full set, sub-sets or indivual volumes, they look for other means of profit.

 

With Bible Study software, value-added products are what matters. I think the value should be added in effective, yet sufficient, ways. What should drive what's being offered should be the demand from users for functionality such as indexed searches and what advantage Accordance already offers such as that font can be set for individual panels. Rather a fully functioning module, having to pay the costs for what potential You get, than ten thousand more insufficiently functioning low-priority or non-specialized indivual volumes and sets of various books that show uo in the store during a decade particularly if those ten thousand volumes are all books that are not opening up such information that has long been available to the few and thereby are not efficiently making Accordance a door to making one's own decisions

[miguel1981]

Thanks for the response