Bob PritchettThere are some business advantages to serving pastors and Bible students. In conversation with other business people I have observed that we have less theft, piracy, fraud, and credit-card charge-backs than most businesses. Our customers pay their...
Amazingly, the final release of IE 7 (released yesterday) introduced yet more changes that break Logos Bible Software. The v3.0a update which we encouraged you to download yesterday does not work with the final release of IE 7. To fix this...
Earlier this year I posted about the Report on Orphan Works published by the Copyright Office. Orphan works represent a wealth of material that is still of great value, particularly in Biblical studies, but which is not widely available and can’t be...
There are more than 100 new features in Logos Bible Software 3. One of the smallest is becoming a favorite of many users. The Edit > Find Dialog has been replaced with a Find Bar. You can open it on a report or resource by selecting Edit > Find from...
Day Eleven saw the Pritchett family off to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace for another attempt at some education. Despite protests beforehand, the kids paid attention and learned a bit about the presidency and American politics. And we got...
After ancient artifacts, I decided to do something on the kids’ list. So we went to a go-kart racetrack and arcade. It was pretty empty on a Tuesday afternoon, so they got to do all the racing and game playing they could handle. In the evening...
The Road Trip RV is using Anaheim, California as home base for this week’s events. I wanted to get something a little more educational than roller coasters out of our free time during the day, so after lunch at In-N-Out Burgers we headed north to...
What a great evening! After a nerve-rattling ride over some bumpy, narrow state highways (“Windy Levy Road Next 3 Miles”), and a trip over the feels-too-high-and-narrow-for-this-RV Antioch Bridge, we arrived at Mount Zion Baptist Church in...
The whole point of driving around in a big billboard is to get attention. It has been working: day three started with a visit from a pastor and his wife who were staying in the same RV park. Later that morning a couple of girls stopped us so that...
Day two was a long haul! We had a late start after stopping for some maintenance issues. We then discovered that I-5, from Portland, OR to Redding, CA, is beautiful, mountainous, and under construction. The RV crawled up the slopes and barrelled...
The Logos Road Trip is underway! After some hectic last minute packing, I hit the road today with my wife and two children for the first leg of the trip. We made it to Portland, OR with just enough time to grab a bite to eat before setting up at...
Thoroughness is one of the hallmarks of electronic books produced for Logos Bible Software. When we produce an electronic edition of a printed book we try to include all of the content and every bit of relevant formatting. We also include detailed...
Yesterday on Blogos, Sean Boisen wrote about the difficulty he had finding the verse containing the phrase “you will know them by their words”. He was looking for Matthew 7:16 and 20, and tried using “know” and...
Today’s guest blogger is Ken Smith, General Manager of Electronic Publishing Services at Logos. (This is the next installment in a series of articles about our nearly 60 publishing partners who market their own electronic products using our...
It was pretty dark in Bellingham, WA at 5:30 AM yesterday, but the lights were on here at Logos Bible Software. Scott Lindsey, ministry relations manager, was on the air with American Family Radio stations, being interviewed from his desk. (This is...
One of my favorite sales stories is about the Logos salesperson who sat next to someone reading their Bible on a plane. Our employee took out his laptop, opened Logos to the same passage, and nudged his seatmate. After an in-air demo the Bible...
At the recent Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Philadelphia, George A. Kiraz, president of Gorgias Press, presented a joint project with Logos Bible Software to create an interlinear to the Syriac New Testament in electronic and printed...
One of the neatest features supported in the next release of Logos Bible Software is the Biblical People database. It has been included in the alpha releases since the end of June, but I wanted to give everyone a chance to see it. The example here...
There are lots of reasons I love my job. I like the technology, the business, and the people. But most of all, I appreciate the incredible privilege it is to be developing tools that help people study the Bible. Recently I came in to work to find...
Getting ready for AAR/SBL this year got me thinking about our booth in previous years. One of my favorite booth themes was our 2003 display with the road sign theme. We did a big banner with a highway overpass and freeway graphics and then made up...
Among the 5,000 books available for the Libronix Digital Library System there are a few that make people wonder, “Why did they produce that one?” Years ago, someone gave our family a copy of The Works of Eugene Field. In high school I read a few...
My favorite story about why electronic reference books are better than print is from AAR/SBL 1996. We had just released the Early Church Fathers on CD-ROM and a woman came up to our booth to place an order. “I am so glad you have this in electronic...
When I am browsing electronic texts I tend to follow a lot of rabbit trails. One of my frustrations with web browsers and other hyperlinked systems is that my navigation history is a straight line. I can follow links from A to B to C to D, but if I...
At a used bookstore in London I found a Bible atlas from 1900 with beautiful colored engravings. I have seen individual atlas pages in old map shops sold for more than this book cost, and it had 11 full page engravings. Few things hurt me like...
It costs so much to build English-language tools and, incrementally, so little to enable them for other languages that it seems a waste not to do so. Our large investment in the large English-speaking market should pay dividends around the world...