bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
Two examples of the same thing:
(1) Scotland's Christian Focus Publications, in its Mentor imprint, published Allan Harman's superb two-volume commentary on the Book of Psalms in 2011. Now, it's 2019, and Volume 1 is out of print, but Volume 2 is still available. In re-buying the set, I quickly got on Amazon and bought a copy of Volume 1 before the price starts skyrocketing.
(2) England's Evangelical Press has done it the other way around: John L. Mackay's excellent two-volume commentary on the Book of Isaiah was published in 2008. In this case, Volume 1 is still available, but Volume 2 is out of print - and quite expensive on Amazon.
Why do publishers do this? If you let one volume of a two-volume commentary go out of print, doesn't that make the remaining volume more or less worthless? Even from a publisher's sales point of view, who would want to buy one half of a commentary?
Isn't publishing a tough enough business without publishers apparently trying to lose money?
(1) Scotland's Christian Focus Publications, in its Mentor imprint, published Allan Harman's superb two-volume commentary on the Book of Psalms in 2011. Now, it's 2019, and Volume 1 is out of print, but Volume 2 is still available. In re-buying the set, I quickly got on Amazon and bought a copy of Volume 1 before the price starts skyrocketing.
(2) England's Evangelical Press has done it the other way around: John L. Mackay's excellent two-volume commentary on the Book of Isaiah was published in 2008. In this case, Volume 1 is still available, but Volume 2 is out of print - and quite expensive on Amazon.
Why do publishers do this? If you let one volume of a two-volume commentary go out of print, doesn't that make the remaining volume more or less worthless? Even from a publisher's sales point of view, who would want to buy one half of a commentary?
Isn't publishing a tough enough business without publishers apparently trying to lose money?