Black Library Era of Ruin Special Edition: Print-on-Demand! (13/12 - 24/12)

[Lord Marshal]

Good news for those who missed out. 

 

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Order it between Saturday and 8am GMT on Christmas Eve, and you’ll be on the list to receive a copy of this sumptuous edition capping off the Siege of Terra series.
 

As a guaranteed stock product, you will be able to order it from Saturday until Wednesday the 24th December at 8am GMT.  Note that because we’ll be printing these books based on demand, production and delivery can take up to 180 days.

 

Figured it was worth it's own thread for that reason. Hopefully they'll retroactively do this for earlier SoT copies.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 02:58 PM by Lord Marshal

[Subtleknife]

Excellent. It is great to see that GW have listened to the community on this one. 

 

This, plus the recent approach to the scouring series is great. Hopefully, this puts the dirty scalpers out of business - or at least harms their ability to scalp.

 

 

[fudblinker]

They should have done this from the start with all the limited edition books. I never understood why they kept releasing a small number of them and lined the pockets of the scalpers, leaving money on the floor. Very glad to see this change.

[Dried]

Excellent news!
Now I need to find the End & the Death vol 3 which is the only one I missed...

[Robbienw]

They should do this for the whole SoT series.  That style of cover looks so nice on the bookshelf.  Secondary market price would probably go down a bit on the original run then as well.

[Vassakov]

28 minutes ago, fudblinker said:

They should have done this from the start with all the limited edition books. I never understood why they kept releasing a small number of them and lined the pockets of the scalpers, leaving money on the floor. Very glad to see this change.

 

Because the logistics and costs of print-to-demand when you are a low volume publisher with a rapid production schedule likely makes it a nightmare.

 

Remember, this isn't being printed by GW so they've most likely got a slot for production and a minimum volume. It then need to be produced and shipped, either direct to the consumer or more likely to GW and then on from there.

 

I will also look forward to the people complaining in March that they haven't got Era of Ruin yet, because that's the reality of print-to-demand. Weirdly, people waiting for product and whining about it is almost worse for companies than people upset they can't get something because its sold out. (See also: Secret Lairs from Magic: The Gathering).

 

I'd expect this to remain the exception not the norm. For things like The Scouring, maybe. For your general one-and-done novels, not a chance. 

[Mechanicus Tech-Support]

God I'd love to get a version of Vol3 of the end and the death, fingers crossed they backtrack through the series.
Am I misremembering that the previous attempt at releasing this was still signed special editions?

[Neil H]

Hooray!  Common sense approach to printing these at last!  Yes, the failed release was signed and numbered, I wonder if they have scrapped them?  Also the leaked/stolen Scouring first book was signed and numbered and as far as I can tell these have not been issued in the initial 3500 print run? Will happily  finish off my set now.  No rush to receive as read the normal release and to be honest wasn't that impressed apart from the last story.

Neil

[Matcap86]

Glad for those people who will manage to finish their collections!

[Waaagh?]

Those lucky few who bought a copy from Warhammer Citadel or whatever in America probably now have one of the rarest GW books in existence! I doubt the print on demand will be numbered and signed.

[Tolmeus]

21 hours ago, Waaagh? said:

Those lucky few who bought a copy from Warhammer Citadel or whatever in America probably now have one of the rarest GW books in existence! I doubt the print on demand will be numbered and signed.

 

You are probably right that these earlier "limited" versions are numbered. But I doubt that they were signed. By whom? Its an anthology with various authors.

[Neil H]

I stand corrected about stating that the book was signed and numbered as looking back at the original release info and looking at both the leaked and ebay sold copies, neither seemed to have this.  If all original print run are blank then no financial hit, just a delay in receiving a return.  As there were only 2500 copies produced of all the previous 13 books, will there be a increase in sales?

Will be ordering tomorrow morning.

Neil

[Subtleknife]

Well having ordered the book today, all I can say is this is the way it should be for LEs going forward.

[Dark Shepherd]

Even with costs of POD theyd still have a savage margin on HH related limited editions. Same on say Dan Abnett books, ADB etc

 

For smaller releases they could increase the number in initial run. In their partial defence they probably agreed a contract with the printer a while ago

 

Someone snapped the ltd edition section on warhammer world before, but I can only think of/remember one author whose last ltd edition didnt sell out

Edited 1 hour ago by Dark Shepherd

[Matcap86]

52 minutes ago, Dark Shepherd said:

Even with costs of POD theyd still have a savage margin on HH related limited editions. Same on say Dan Abnett books, ADB etc

 

For smaller releases they could increase the number in initial run. In their partial defence they probably agreed a contract with the printer a while ago

 

Someone snapped the ltd edition section on warhammer world before, but I can only think of/remember one author whose last ltd edition didnt sell out

 

I'll be curious to see now the "investment/resell value" is decreasing due to the less rarity if stuff will stop selling out.