We have had some of the greatest sales in Logos history this December. Sadly, the time to take advantage of these incredible savings is almost over. All of these deals end midnight Sunday, January 2, 2011!

Putting together the unprecedented Christmas sale this year has been so much fun for us. The Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) was proof that we don’t like to do anything halfway.

This massive collection of 2,010 titles worth more than $61,000.00 in print for the insanely low price of only $2,010, was an exciting sale to offer! At nearly 97% off the retail price and only costing $1 per volume, this is the biggest discount we have ever shared—and the biggest collection we’ve ever assembled. I mean, just look at this awesome list of titles that make up this collection!

But that wasn’t all.

We also offered four smaller collections that didn’t overlap with each other, so you could buy multiple collections without getting any duplicates.

• a 1,000-volume collection for $1,249.95 worth nearly $30,000.00 in print—nearly 96% off retail!
• a 500-volume collection for $749.95 worth nearly $16,000.00 in print—more than 95% off retail!
• a 250-volume collection for $499.95 worth more than $8,000.00 in print—nearly 94% off retail!
• a 125-volume collection for $299.95 worth more than $4,000.00 in print—nearly 93% off retail!

If that wasn’t enough, we also gave you the opportunity to build your own collection with 50% off every title featured in the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.).

On top of those great Christmas sales, there was also the second annual 12 Days of Logos sale. On December 21, we extended the sale through January 2, 2011.

But that is still not all!

We have been offering discounts on all base packages, and also great upgrade discounts.

Just like 2010, all of these special savings are drawing to a close. Come midnight January 2, 2011 all of these sales come to an end. So, what are you waiting for? Take advantage of these incredible offers while there is still time!

And from all of us Logos Bible Software, have the happiest of New Years!

Today’s guest post is by Deni Avant, from the Logos Bible Software marketing team.

There have been plenty of great Christmas specials to take advantage of this year and the Christmas 2010 Collection 1 is no exception. With this collection, you save nearly 94% on more than $8,000 worth of books! Think about it—you get 250 books for just $2 each!

Collection 1 contains a variety of commentaries with volumes from Pillar New Testament Commentary, College Press NIV Commentary, IVP New Testament Commentary, Crossway Classic Commentaries, New American Commentary, and Horae Homileticae. You’ll also get theological works, practical life titles, and biblical studies.

Check out just a few other titles you’ll get in Collection 1:

• The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna is an illuminating and exhaustive treatment of Genesis with line-by-line analysis, excursuses, and helpful maps.
• Drawing Near: Daily Readings for a Deeper Faith by John MacArthur can be used as a daily devotion in combination with God’s Holy Word and will help guide you in a growing relationship with God.
• New Testament Background Commentary by W. Harold Mare serves as both a commentary and dictionary of words, phrases, and situations that shed light on the text.
• Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til is an important work on Christian apologetics from an eminent Reformed thinker.
• History of Interpretation by Frederic William Farrar surveys the history of biblical interpretation from the early Jewish rabbis through Farrar’s own time.

Works from H. A. Ironside, John G. Butler, A. W. Pink, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, and many more make a great addition to anyone’s library!

Learn more about all 250 titles that are included in the Christmas 2010 Collection 1!

Remember to check out the larger Christmas collections! They provide more resources at even deeper discounts.

During the holidays, I find myself introspective about the coming year. Although I tend to be skeptical of New Year’s resolutions, I am inspired by Jonathan Edwards’ example of resolving to character reformation. Edwards kept a list of resolutions which he read through weekly.

His resolutions included admonitions like:

1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.
2. Resolved, to be continually endeavoring to find out some new invention and contrivance to promote the aforementioned things.
3. Resolved, if ever I shall fall and grow dull, so as to neglect to keep any part of these Resolutions, to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself again.

Jonathan’s twenty-eighth resolution reads,

“Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.”

Logos wants to help you keep your Bible study resolutions with deep discounts on all base packages

This is in keeping with the mission and goal at Logos Bible Software, where we seek to serve the church by equipping pastors, students, missionaries, teachers, and the church at large with tools that make Bible study easier and more accessible.

If you are resolved to improve your scriptural studies this year, consider doing it with one of our Logos 4 base packages. We have been offering 20% off of all of our base packages for a while, but that sale ends at midnight on January 2, 2011.

Logos 4 can help take your personal Bible study to new heights. For starters, Logos 4 provides thousands of infographics, maps, charts, and graphs, as well as tools to make Hebrew and Greek study accessible to English Bible students. But that’s not all! With a Logos base package you can put an entire library of theological and biblical books at your fingertips and get the information you need right away with lightening quick searches.

All Logos 4 base packages are multi-platform and will work on PC and Mac. There is no need to purchase one package for home, and one for your office. A single base package syncs across your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, and even online. With Logos 4 you have your resource library available where you need it most.

Don’t forget, there are still discounts on Logos 4 upgrades as well! Just head over to the Upgrade Discounter and see the custom discounts we have—just for you.

Like I said, this sale isn’t going to go on much longer. Act quickly to save big on Logos 4—and start this year on the right foot.

When we launched the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) in the middle of December, we knew we were offering something amazing. It isn’t every day you are going to have the opportunity to pick up 2,010 titles for $1 a book. This is exactly what the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) offers—over $61,000.00 in print value at the insanely low price of only $2,010!

I spent some time on the Logos forum this morning enjoying the excitement of what forumite Ted Weis called “Logos Sale Influenza,” the affliction that keeps bringing you back over and over again to scroll through long list of sale titles.

The enthusiasm regarding the Logos Christmas sale—particularly the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.)—is quite apparent on the forums.

Many of the forum exchanges revolve around how many titles overlap between larger base packages, like Platinum, and the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.). When we put the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) together, we knew that many of you would already own some of the titles included in the collection. We pressed forward, however, completely convinced that—even if you owned half of the resources in the Master Collection—it was still a remarkable sale.

This is the conclusion that many of our power users are coming to as well.

One forum thread that caught my eye was Praiser’s thread, titled Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) A GREAT Bargain! Praiser had created a spreadsheet comparing the Portfolio Edition (with many add-ons) to the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.). I was struck by the fact that, not only did this spreadsheet (which is updated throughout the forum thread) represent hours of work, after all that work, Praiser ended up placing an order for the Master Collection.

Praiser’s logic was summed up in this quote,

“Here is a thought to consider. So if you only got 1,340 [new] resources from the collection at $2,010, that would be $1.50 per resource. Now if you think of those resources you really value (you know the ones on your “list”) that are included in the Collection, what would they cost you any other time of the year?”

Praiser is not the only one to come to this conclusion. When discussing the wisdom of purchasing the Master Collection vs. buying individual sale titles at 50% off, Logos forum MVP Matthew C Jones says,

“I have already come to the conclusion that 97% off is a better deal than 50% off. And yes, I do have a lot of duplication because I have Portfolio Edition and many extras added on (ie: B.B. Warfield, A.W.Tozer Collections.) So in reality Dan Pritchett is giving a better deal percentage wise to the “have-nots” thus enabling them to enjoy more resources. I don’t know the final savings % yet but I am already sold on the Master Collection because the resources I don’t yet have but will get FAR out distance a 50% sale price. That is enough to sway my decision.”

Keep in mind that both Praiser and Matthew C Jones have compared the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) with the Logos Bible Software 4: Portfolio Edition. The Portfolio package features 1,700 resources and is going to have the most overlap with the 2,010 titles available in the Master Collection. Even for the Portfolio owners, the Master Collection is a huge value. If you own any other base package, the savings and value in the Master Collection only goes up.

Now, more than ever, we are convinced that the Christmas 2010 Master Collection (2,010 vols.) is not only the largest collection we have ever offered, but the best deal as well. But this deal isn’t going to be around forever. Come Sunday, January 2, 2011, the sale ends. Trust us, you aren’t going to want to spend the rest of 2011 lamenting the fact that you missed out on this incredible bargain!

If you are a regular blog reader, you have heard a lot recently about the amazing Logos Christmas Sale—and rightly so. The 2,010 volume Christmas 2010 Master Collection is the largest collection we have ever assembled and we’re selling it for $1 per volume! We’re talking about 2,010 titles worth more than $61,000.00 in print for sale at nearly 97% off the retail price.

Let’s be honest though, how many of us don’t think twice about a $2,010 purchase? Sometimes it is difficult to justify a huge investment—even when it is the deal of the century.

To help remedy this, we created some smaller sale collections. The books in each of the smaller collections are completely unique. So, you could pick up the 250 volume collection and the 500 volume collection without worrying about doubling up on content.

We have also discounted every title available in the Christmas 2010 Master Collection by 50%. This way you can pick and choose the titles you want at a discount that is still pretty remarkable.

Just remember, as the collections get smaller, so do the discounts. Where the Christmas 2010 Master Collection is a savings of almost 97%, by the time you get to the 125 volume Christmas 2010 Starter Collection the savings drop to 93%. When you choose to purchase individual titles, you are only saving 50% off of the retail cost. These are still great savings, but you want to get the best deal you can for your investment.

Using the Payment Plan is a great way to take advantage of the best deal in Logos history. With the Payment Plan you can spread the purchase of your Christmas collections out for up to a year.

When you use a Payment Plan, the Christmas 2010 Master Collection can go from $2,010 right now to $172.50 over twelve months. The 500 volume Christmas 2010 Collection 3 becomes a much more manageable $46.66 a month over the course of a year. With our interest free Payment Plan, you get a better value by paying incrementally.

All you need to do to use the Payment Plan is simply click the “ADD TO CART” button on one of the collections. When you go to check out, you will be prompted with payment options which will let you choose the Payment Plan that will work for you.

We also know that some of our users have a strict book purchasing budget. We intentionally extended the sale through midnight January 2 to allow you to take advantage of your 2011 book funds.

Take another look at our incredible Christmas values, and think about how you can use one of our Payment Plans to get the biggest bang for your buck.

Time is running out to take advantage of our upgrade discounts. Right now is the best time to add valuable new Logos 4 content for pennies on the dollar. Plus, you will find that the higher you upgrade from your existing base package, the deeper the discount. You can get up to 20% off your Logos 4 upgrade today.

The upgrade discount is even more manageable when you use a Logos Payment Plan to stretch out your payments over a period of a couple months, or even up to a year.

As you can see from our Base Package comparison chart, the number of resources you receive increases dramatically with every step up from one package to the next. The following graph shows the number of resources you get in Platinum is nearly triple the number available in the Scholar’s Library.

When you upgrade your Logos 4 Base Package, you aren’t upgrading your software—you are simply getting tons of new books at an incredible value.

Upgrading from a current Scholar’s Library package to Scholar’s Library: Gold would typically cost you $750.00, but right now you can upgrade for only $637.50—that’s a savings of 15%! With a Payment Plan, that can be stretched out for up to 12 payments of $58.13. When you upgrade from Scholar’s to Gold you increase your number of resources from under 500 to 950. And consider this: you would receive 37 volumes of the New American Bible Commentary which—in itself—pays for the cost of the upgrade!

One more step up—from Scholar’s to Platinum—increases your upgrade discount to 20% and nearly triples your resource count.

You owe it to yourself to check out our upgrade discounter to see the prices that are available for you. Simply go to the upgrade discounter, sign in to your Logos.com account, and see your special discount and compare the different packages.