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spaceelf wrote:Now that GW has raised the price of the paper codex to match the ebook, the price differential is no longer an argument. However, the new higher price is outrageous. It is the same as the cost of a moderately priced video game, and that takes a lot more art work, play testing, and programming.

And it's practically the same price of the hardcover Fantasy Army books. This is crazy.

I do have an iPad 2, but if I search in the iBooks store for 'games workshop', 'gw', 'codex', or 'space marines', it seems like it doesn't exist... Am I doing something wrong? Are the books not (yet) available in the Belgian iBooks store? Has anyone got the same issue? Help me out, please.

By the way, I don't intend to buy their eStuff (for now), because the prices are too high in my opinion, but I'd like to download a free sample.

labmouse42 wrote:The price is about $12 to high. For $30 I would have bought it. At $42 its a bit of a stretch.
Its a great quality product, and if there is a new Codex coming out that I want -- I will consider buying it. In regards to replacing an existing codex I own, there is no way I would pay that premium.

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The Infinite wrote: Cars don't last much beyond 5 years (unless you buy a Kia and then you get 7)

While I agree with you on the phones, I disagree here.

If you bought a good car and take good care of it, you can get a lot more than 5-7 years out of it. I got 10 years out of my Saturn before I sold it, and it was still running well.

Unlike an ipad, you can replace parts as they break.

I realise this is really off topic, but replacing parts is where most car companies make money (and why warranties are as long as they are, the parts generally all last the warranty then begin to fail afterwards). Ford made a loss of $50 per car sold in 2010 (I don't have 2011 data to hand), General Motors lost $200 per car sold; they made up for it in parts (amongst other things). Toyota made a profit of $2000 per car (Mass Production vs Lean Production), but they are big advocates of replacing your car every 5 years, the head of Toyota said a couple of years ago he wanted a world where no car on the road was older than 5 years old!

Naturally, if you take care of something it'll last longer. But all electrical components have a lifetime rating, a switch will only switch a certain number of times, LCDs have an active display lifetime etc. Companies have a lot of research on what people will spend, they factor that into the production costs and don't waste money on more expensive components that last longer because they expect you to upgrade every 3 years, ideally sooner.

I've got the same problem.
It seems the digital GW stuff is not yet available for us poor Belgians

Mister Chaos wrote:I do have an iPad 2, but if I search in the iBooks store for 'games workshop', 'gw', 'codex', or 'space marines', it seems like it doesn't exist... Am I doing something wrong? Are the books not (yet) available in the Belgian iBooks store? Has anyone got the same issue? Help me out, please.

By the way, I don't intend to buy their eStuff (for now), because the prices are too high in my opinion, but I'd like to download a free sample.

If you go to the news page of the GW website and click the "Available on the iBookstore" then it should open up the right page for your country. If that doesn't work, then yeah, it might not be on the Belgian store.

the price is outrageous. and it's only for space marines. and only for people with ipads? i feel like they might loose money on this. and at that price, they should. ridiculous.

Price is not in fact too bad.

The iBook has production values well beyond a simple hard copy book. But, and this is a big BUT, for that price (having bought it already) I do expect that they will update it if and when a need arises, be it due to a new FAQ, spotted typo or functional error (like the dead links it already has) and especially IF the main wh40k rules get updated before a new marine dex. I will accept that when they do publish a genuinely new marine dex, Ill have to pay again full (or nearly full) price. But then the ibook has to be kept up to date.

But let's see how this ends up. And hope for an android one too.