Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

I purchased a couple hard-to-get journal articles through this service a 
month or so ago. It's a great prompt service. I had the documents 
delivered by download, which come as an Adobe Digital Editions files. 
The file itself allows for one printing, then the printing option 
expires (in reality you may get two chances to print the document). I 
was quite pleased to finally have the references I had been chasing for 
some time. I'd recommend the service to others.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


> I do not understand this low price, but in the interests of
> sharing information concerning reasonably-priced accessibility:
>
> A website called "British Library Direct" is offering what appears
> to be the complete text of Russell Gmirkin's
> book, _Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus_ (T and T
> Clark, 2006), for 13.25 pounds (5 copyright plus 8.25) [= USD $26.69]
> for Adobe download, or 14.50 pounds for hard copy delivered
> by mail (5 copyright plus 9.50) [= USD $29.22]. Compare this
> book at $140.00 from Amazon; $97.86 from Eisenbraun's.
>
> The site appears to think Gmirkin's book is an "article", but
> the bibliographic information is of the book and "all" pages of it
> are promised for the price.
>
> The site is at
> http://direct.bl.uk/
>
> After discovering this price on Gmirkin's book, I checked and
> to my further shock discovered my own 800-plus page tome
> on Pesher Nahum, available on Amazon for
> $200.00 and from Eisenbraun's for $129.50, is offered for the same
> price (13.25 pounds [$26.99] download, 14.50 pounds [$29.22]
> hard copy mailed) for "all" pages.
>
> If this is for real for these two books, who knows what else is
> available from this site at these prices?
>
> It requires a free login. I have not personally verified through an
> order that this is for real.
>
> The stated objective of the website is "to make the world's
> intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage accessible, and to
> bring the collections of the British Library to everyone - at work,
> school, college or home."
>
> British Library Direct is identified as a new platform offering a
> fresh online interface with the British Library's document supply
> service, said to be the leading document provider in the world.
>
> The website's promise seems straightforward: "order full text quickly and
> easily using your credit card".
>
> If there is a merciful Deity, please let this not be too good to
> be true... (with apologies to the wonderful people at
> Eisenbrauns whose prices seem slightly undercut).
>
> Greg Doudna
> Bellingham, Washington USA