Black Library News & Rumours Thread II, aka Rise of the Bibliophile

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**BrookM**

2882 copies left according to twatter. Also, BL is saying sorry and telling us to come back later, still plenty of books left.

**reds8n**

indeed

from Facebook...

If you are trying to get on to buy ‘Aurelian’, there are still plenty of copies left.

We apologise for those of you experiencing problems, due to the volume of traffic on the site, the website is running very slowly.

see that working well eh ?

What they should do, of course, is ensure that influential people from popular wargaming forums get their copies first of all to..err.... provide inspiration.. yes, yes ! .. to the others.

**BrookM**

I'd be okay with pre-paid pre-orders.

**The Decapitator**

The easiest solution is to get a job with GW, staff members got the opportunity to Pre-order a copy 2 weeks ago!

**moonshine**

Sigh, Guess I'm going to need to settle for the non limited edition copy then, physcially impossible to get onto black library right now because the servers are too busy

**Dragonlover**

I currently have somewhere between 0 and 2 copies in my basket. However, the server has gone completely belly up so I have no idea whats happening. I am, however, slowly getting to the checkout. Theoretically.

Whether I get it or not though, sod going for the other two unless they look seriously awesome. I'll suck up the wait.

Dragonlover

**Temujin**

I got up at 2am on a work night to order this book. Now it's past 3 and I still don't have it :(

Hope I can get some sleep before too long.

**BrookM**

Oh those whacky kids at BL!

"Order 'Aurelian' in less than an hour, and all other products in your basket will get shipped UPS at no addition charge.

See the Black Library blog for more details."

**Dragonlover**

Smug bastards. God knows how long it's gonna take for me to get through. I'm more pissed off because this is my birthday present to myself, or at least it's meant to be.

Dragonlover

**BrookM**

I'm not backing down now, I had to go through a lot of hoops to get a shot at this tonight.

**cincydooley**

Yeah, this is pretty absurd.

I'd be fine waiting on a non-limited copy as well.... if they'd release it sooner than two years from now like they state.

If they can limit the number of Finecast you can order, they can certainly limit these as well.

Just really frustrating.

**Dragonlover**

Godsdammit! I got to checkout, but it had 2 copies and I can't afford that, so now I have to wait for it to get me to the basket so I can remove one. I don't understand why they can't hook their servers up with the GW ones... I mean, they're presumably somewhere nearby, right?

Dragonlover

**BrookM**

"Aurelian update - Hi all. Thanks for your patience. We are having problems with our server and as I'm sure you are aware it's killing load time on the site. Rest assured we still have plenty of copies left. If you have tried calling us, we are in the office and are trying to answer as many calls as we can. We'll update you again soon."

And nope, they are not taking orders over the phone.

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feth it, I'll give it one more try tomorrow before I go to work. If that doesn't work then I'm €65,- richer again and I'll just PM one of the luckier members asking for a synopsis.

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And to twist the knife a bit more:

"Hey guys, there really is nothing we can do about the servers in the short term (tonight). We know its not much, but to help ease your wait, we'll post an extract from Outcast Dead in the next few minutes."

I hope it's going on FB and not their site.

**Alpharius**

I couldn't stand it when they did this with PROMETHEAN SON and I'm not happy with it now either.

It is arguably their most popular series and instead of just putting out an anthology book that would sell a ton of copies they are limiting quantities, they are charging an absolutely obscene amount for shipping, etc. etc.

And on top of that, they didn't at least learn enough about their own system the last time around to adequately prepare for this time.

Yeah, I'll wait for the in-print version, be it two years down the road or whatever.

**Kanluwen**

According to FW's Facebook page(where for some reason people were raging at them for this debacle...) the Black Library guys were as of the first few minutes of preorders going live on the phone trying to get more server space from the hosting company they use.

**reds8n**

The Outcast Dead extract is indeed on thier FB page..

.. and very nice it is too.

**BrookM**

In all honesty they should have seen this coming and they could have prevented this well in advance.

Link for the confused and lazy: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150293152760793

**Bloodwin**

BL have just posted chapter one of Aurelian on Facebook. That's a big gesture but will also wind up the fanatics, very interesting indeed.

**KamikazeCanuck**

BrookM wrote:In all honesty they should have seen this coming and they could have prevented this well in advance.

Link for the confused and lazy: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150293152760793

Thanks, I am the aforementioned confused and lazy.

**Kanluwen**

Black Library wrote:Aurelian - off sale
by Black Library on Monday, 12 September 2011 at 23:40

Hi all. We hoped that the server situation would improve. Obviously it hasn't. We are now going to take Aurelian off sale until we can fix the issue with our servers. We will provide more information tomorrow but the book will be off sale for at least 72 hours. We will ensure that when it returns to sale, the book can be bought quickly and easily with no technical problems. We really appreciate your patience over the last six hours, and will find a way to make it up to you.Those of you who have managed to pay for a copy will likely not have received a confirmation email. Don't worry, we will email you tomorrow. Thanks again for sticking with us.

Damn...they were there till 11:40pm GMT, at least.

**Pacific**

The Decapitator wrote:The easiest solution is to get a job with GW, staff members got the opportunity to Pre-order a copy 2 weeks ago!

That's a hell of a sacrifice to make though...

**BrookM**

Okay, we'll try again in three days.

**reds8n**

part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWxl0TnkeYA&feature=player_embedded

**The Decapitator**

Pacific wrote:
The Decapitator wrote:The easiest solution is to get a job with GW, staff members got the opportunity to Pre-order a copy 2 weeks ago!

That's a hell of a sacrifice to make though...

Indeed, but we all know that GW won't be happy until they get your soul......and they will, one way or another.

I think that's what's happening to the Avatar on the cover!

"But....but, I was only trying to order Promethean Sun!"

**moonshine**

The Decapitator wrote:The easiest solution is to get a job with GW, staff members got the opportunity to Pre-order a copy 2 weeks ago!

Yeah but I'd get fired after they discovered the secret stash of Malifaux hidden under the desk.

**Kroothawk**

BrookM wrote:In all honesty they should have seen this coming and they could have prevented this well in advance.

GW expects its server to break down 17th September with preorders for Dread Fleet. They see it coming and do ... watch

**Alpharius**

What a screw up!

Makes me glad I didn't even bother trying to order this one...

**reds8n**

.. And Bl redeem themselves, wonderfully

Last night our latest limited edition, Horus Heresy novella Aurelian went on sale. The response to Aurelian was phenomenal, far in excess of our expectations, with thousands of you trying to connect every second - testament to the popularity of the Horus Heresy series and Aaron’s writing. Unfortunately, our website couldn’t cope with such an extremely high level of demand and crashed.

We’re grateful to all of you, our fans, for your patience last night and the feedback you took the time to give us. Among all the phone calls, emails and messages we received there were two recurring points – make blacklibrary.com run faster and print more copies of each limited edition. We’ve been busy today so that we can fulfil both of those requests.

Our technical support team are currently in the process of updating our website to make sure that even during our most busy periods your experience is never again affected.

Aurelian will be back on sale on Monday 17th October. And, in response to your feedback, there will be 6,000 copies (double the original amount) available to buy. We appreciate that some of you are more interested in reading the story than owning a signed copy. To that end, we are splitting the 6,000 copies into two distinct editions. The existing edition of 3,000, the Gold Edition, will cost £30, has gold foiling and is still limited to 3,000 copies. Every copy is signed, numbered and contains internal art. In addition we will release a Silver Edition which will retail at £20, this has silver foiling and is also limited to 3,000 copies. The Silver Edition will be neither signed nor numbered, and won’t feature the colour internal art. It will however be the same format A5 hardback, contain the full Aurelian novella and feature Neil Robert’s fantastic artwork on its cover. As is standard with our limited edition novellas, we will not be releasing Aurelian in any other English language format for at least two years.

If you set your reminder for either of these two products, you will receive an email reminding you before Aurelian goes on sale again.

As an added bonus we’re also going to give you free UPS shipping on your copy of Aurelian and anything else you order at the same time. What’s more, we’re going to ease your wait by offering free standard shipping on everything you order from midday (BST) Friday 16th of September, until midday on Tuesday the 18th of October – so you’ll have something to read in the meantime.

FFP to them, that's a good and swift response indeed.

**BrookM**

Wow, top!

**Pyroriffic**

Thought any of you BL fans going to GDUK would be interested to see this:

What you can buy at Games Day from the Black Library.