Digital Codexs from GW - Codex SM on iBookstore Now

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**gilljoy**

Just seen this on there website.

This month Games Workshop is launching a range of incredible digital products, exclusively available through the iBookstore with the iBooks app, for use with the iPad. These digital books are amazingly interactive: you're able to swipe through galleries, view models from different angles, navigate through a Codex or a scenario, and even store battlefield notes as you go along. What's more, you can take your entire library of digital books wherever you want to paint or fight your tabletop battles.

New Releases Every Month

Over the coming months we will be releasing Codexes and Army Books, comprehensive painting articles, official rules for Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, collecting guides and tactical guidance for making the most out of your miniatures collection on the painting table and the battlefield.Games Workshop's digital products are exclusively available from the iBookstore. To download them you will need an iPad with iOS 5 or later, an Apple ID and the iBooks 2 app, which you can download for free from the App Store.

How do I buy Digital Products?

If you have an iPad, check out what is available from the iBookstore by clicking here then going to the store and searching for Games Workshop. If you are looking at what is available from a PC or Mac click on the icon below. You can also find out what is available on the iBookstore by searching for Games Workshop or by the product you want to purchase e.g Codex: Space Marines. Make sure you keep checking the Games Workshop website and Facebook page regularly for information on new digital products - more will be released every month.

- Interact with our digital books in a totally new and tactile manner.

- Take your library of digital products everywhere you enjoy your hobby.

- Reorder your purchases on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, game system or any category of your choosing, and organise them into personal collections.

- Find a word, character or phrase anywhere in your book with the in-built search feature.

- Quickly find a specific page using the page navigator at the bottom of every page.

- Highlight your favourite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features.

- Read a free sample of any digital product on the iBookstore before making it a part of your collection.

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Prices
Codex Space Marine £24.99
Each Scroll of binding - £0.49

Not gona lie after watching the video I want an iPad now. Is this prehaps a sign of GW scrapping the "wave releases" atleast for books since they can be updated whenever.

Either way Gw embracing modern tech is a good sign.

**Kajon**

I would never had guessed that it would be GW that should trick me into buying an IPad.

**hotsauceman1**

And i have a Nook. :(

**kenshin620**

Only ibooks? Well at least I have one but yea sucks to be without one

I assume these are the same price as the normal ones?

**hotsauceman1**

If they pull the crud that a digital book costs the same as hard copy the fanrage will engulf the world in flames.

**gilljoy**

From what I can tell from looking at there video there using the Apple tool to authour the book for that interactivity ( apple released this when the new iPad came out) so I think that they may only be able to release it on the iBook store unfortunately .

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hotsauceman1 wrote:If they pull the crud that a digital book costs the same as hard copy the fanrage will engulf the world in flames.

Thats pretty much standard practice unfortunately. Though the digital copy may actually be worth the money for all the cool stuff. I never thought I'd defend Gw prices in my life

**RiTides**

Wow, credit where credit is due... this is a good move by GW.

gilljoy wrote:Thats pretty much standard practice unfortunately. Though the digital copy may actually be worth the money for all the cool stuff. I never thought I'd defend Gw prices in my life

Not from what I've seen, as an owner of several kindles and nooks... comparable yes, but not equal in price.

**His Master's Voice**

It's nice that they're giving people the option. Still, limiting it to ios systems rules me out.

**gilljoy**

RiTides wrote:Wow, credit where credit is due... this is a good move by GW.

gilljoy wrote:Thats pretty much standard practice unfortunately. Though the digital copy may actually be worth the money for all the cool stuff. I never thought I'd defend Gw prices in my life

Not from what I've seen, as an owner of several kindles and nooks... comparable yes, but not equal in price.

Never Said they where equal but this has more features than a standard book which I personally think is cool.

Also updated the first post with prices.

£24.99 for a codex,
49p for a scroll of binding

**Kroothawk**

New Digital Products for June

- Codex: Space Marines. Expanded, fully interactive and now totalling a staggering 324 pages. Comes with searchable glossaries, 360º miniatures galleries, and fully up-to-date rules including all the Space Marine weapons and wargear, such as the new Stormtalon Gunship.

- How to Paint Citadel Miniatures - Ultramarines. An in-depth painting guide from the Design Studio's professional army painters.

- Battlefield Challenge - Deathknell Watch. An exciting Warhammer scenario based around the eldritch Deathknell Watch tower. Accompanied by a comprehensive painting guide by the Design Studio's professional painters.

- Scrolls of Binding. Full rules for use in your Warhammer Storm of Magic battles. This month we present them for the Jabberslythe, Thundertusk, Stonehorn and Mournfang packs, as well as exclusive Scrolls of Binding for Terradons and the Great Cave Squig.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?type=article&aId=22200010a&_requestid=930047
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?entity=ebook&media=all&page=1&restrict=true&startIndex=0&term=games+workshop

**Vemores32**

Wait sorry say what!? 25 quid for a codex? Jeeeeesus that's hard to justify. Probably grab codex sm to try it but man that hurts the wallet.

Edit. Anyone seeing them on the store? Only able to see 1 scroll of binding myself...

**hotsauceman1**

Wait, I hope all codexes arent released this way now. If so im left in the dust.

**Johnny-Crass**

I wonder if all the dakka posters who said GW would die without the digital age will post on this thread....

**kenshin620**

Scrolls of binding....

I am suddenly reminded of those small DLC weapon packs for video games

**streamdragon**

iPad exclusive can go frell itself

**Zuul**

I'll never buy an ebook reader nor an apple product, so I'm not terribly excited by this.

**Happygrunt**

FINALLY!!!

Now if they will make it available to all platforms, that will be good. Luckily, I have an ipod, which this will work on.

And just as I start to move to Warmahordes. Clever move GW.

**Erasoketa**

It's almost like Infinity Wiki, pdf downloads and army builder! Without army builder! But expensive! And exclusive for one platform! Brilliant!

Edit: also, covering only one army...
Edit 2: also, without rulebook, and only available in English. The more I read the better it gets!

**warboss**

What are scrolls of binding on ipads?

As for the codex, I'm impressed with how interactive it is. Let's face it.. GW is not known for passing savings down to consumers so the codex was always going to be full price or close to it even as a digital product despite competing with "free" illegal downloads. The extra features that they put into this above and beyond just a searchable/zoomable pdf combined with some partial updates (with the talon) at least give people with the hard copy some other reasons to buy this over acquiring a less savory pirated PDF.

In the end, though, I don't know if I'd get one even if I had an ipad. With 6th edition right around the corner and the 3 edition tradition of vanilla marines getting a new codex soon after, buying a possibly months-away-from-obsolete digital product may not be the best idea unless it comes with free updates (unlikely). The rumors of what is actually coming next are quite conflicted once you get past possibly chaos so I'd always be thinking about that.

**English Assassin**

I was ready to be impressed - even at a development that was five years overdue.

I was even ready to spend some money...

And then, of course, I noticed that GW had to ruin it all by making digital codices iOS-exclusive.

**AresX8**

This can only mean good things. So what it's on an iOS device, this is the first step to GW actually doing something smart.

**hotsauceman1**

Yeah, For a fraction of its customer base.

**Johnny-Crass**

hotsauceman1 wrote:Yeah, For a fraction of its customer base.

I would rather them start small and avoid mistakes then start big and well....

**hotsauceman1**

Well aslong as there is future suppor for other products.

AT

That's a common approach. I've been developing a few mobile/tablet apps at work, and we normally start with iOS. Biggest marketshare, yadda yadda. If things work out, we target the more fragmented platforms later.

**choasdwarflord**

they are only in the UK store it seems

**Vemores32**

Well folks, finally found and bought it.

At first glance there didn't seem to be any rules in it (like what atsknf did) on closer inspection, once you tap it you get the rules. Seems like a seriously worthwhile investment. And it makes my iPad more worthwhile. Double win! :-)

**Deathshead420**

Now thats kind of awesome. Going to have to get one of those i think.

**Holycrusader27**

Too little to late if you ask me, I mean mac only? Warroom is going to be availible on andriod/Iphone.

**Vitruvian XVII**

Pretty awesome! If only i had an ipad.

At least its a step in the right direction GW!