Today only Merrill’s 2nd edition of Kingdom of Priests is available for Logos at “half price.” I put that in quotation marks because it is based on the retail price ($40), and you can buy the paperback version every day at Amazon for $26.
This brings to mind yet again my frustration at having to purchase books twice if I want a copy on my computer. Christian publishers will never be this non-greedy innovative, but perhaps competition in the broader world of book publishing will one day lead to a system where those who buy books can get the electronic version for a small additional fee.
BTW, the primary difference between the first edition (1987) and the second is the first chapter which addresses more recent attacks on the Bible’s historicity.
There’s hope Todd….DVD’s are already shipping with digital copies, we can only hope books will do the same…and soon.
Two recent grammars by Eisenbrauns (Hittite and Ugaritic) include a CD with the full text of the book in pdf and, in the case of Ugaritic, hi-res photos of the tablets that are hyperlinked from the text.
I imagine this presents some risk to Eisenbrauns, since people can just pass around the pdf files. But I am glad they are willing to take that risk. A pdf is as heavy as my laptop and it is searchable. But I still like that paper copy since I often remember where something is by its relative location in the book or on the page.