I note from the GW and Black Library Websites that they are soon to release (19th Oct) the new Codex: Adepta Sororitas (Sisters of Battle to you and me) for 40K.
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| The decidedly 'Marvelesque' Cover (Can u call it a cover if it's digital?) |
Being a collector of this army for sometime (I've even had a couple of games with the army over the years too), I had a look at this as it peeked my interest, not only as I have a passing interest in using the army again but also cause the released 5th Ed lists serialized in White Dwarf a couple of years ago were fairly poor, so I thought this might be an improvement.
I quickly noted that this was an ebook only release. So digital but no dead tree versions, hmmm.
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| A Nun with a Gun |
I don't have a big problem with this as I've recently embraced the ebook revolution, but what is of interest was that this is synonymous of a bigger move, away from hard copy to a digital only theme that seems to be building generally in publishing and more particularly in gaming. Perhaps it is because of the general low volume of gaming publishing that is pushing this move, or is it that us as customers are more agreeable to the digital medium.
I can see that the army is probably low sales comparatively, but at least the lower overhead option of supporting the still available (but alas un-added to) range of figures.
The pretty chunky price tag for a digital version of £19.99, for a 120 pages ish did seem a bit steep though.
I did note that GW's (Black Library) catalogue of digital and digital only products is pretty extensive, surprisingly so. Even if some of the titles are a bit esoteric to say the least, but I'm not one to gain say that.
Far too expensive for me!
ReplyDeletePete that is Specialist Military Publishing asked at one time if he released a new edition of Cold War Commander I think it was, if people would want hard copy or not. I think the overwhelming answer was yes they would.
ReplyDeleteBut the reality is as you say, that the cost of a proper publication vs the cost of likely sales is rather unlikely to break even in the majority of cases, especially in the case of wargaming which is a niche at the best of times.
Even some pro's have done stuff that looked like it was typed up in word, add in some pictures and save it as a PDF. (The Mantic fantasy rule set springs to mind)
Some of us just don't like PDFs and are prepared to pay a premium for a real book
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