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Why this rather than a nice, big omnibus edition?

So Gorgias trilogy got SE? I do not remember any short except Argent so those mentioned would be new to me but I would not pay for LE, especially because I only liked the first book.

Did some digging and only Argent was ever done as an eshort / printed elsewhere in the past, the other two have not featured anywhere else as far as I am aware.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Why this rather than a nice, big omnibus edition?

Because Black Library is almost incapable of making good decisions.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Why this rather than a nice, big omnibus edition?

TBF there might still be one afterwards, and these no doubt have lovely margins assuming it's £100 like the Dark Coil set.

But nobody is defending BL's crazy money hating reprint strategy here.

 BrookM wrote:
Did some digging and only Argent was ever done as an eshort / printed elsewhere in the past, the other two have not featured anywhere else as far as I am aware.

Oh, it explains why they were unknown

 The Phazer wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Why this rather than a nice, big omnibus edition?

TBF there might still be one afterwards, and these no doubt have lovely margins assuming it's £100 like the Dark Coil set.

But nobody is defending BL's crazy money hating reprint strategy here.

They seem to have no strategy at all. Why does Vaults of Terra go to limited edition hardbacks when, say, Fabius Bile went to an omnibus? Why do most of their books go hardback to paperback, but the Dawn of Fire series debuts in the latter? Why did The Magos - surely a big release at the time - not get a Limited Edition or hardback?

All I ask is at least the illusion of consistency.

The Magos did receive the limited signed edition treatment, it was released alongside the paperback, the latter being in the same format as the reprints they did at that time, hence why they skipped the hardback treatment, as Eisenhorn never had those with the original trilogy. Xenos did receive a hardback edition later, but that was an illustrated and annotated version.

Omnibuses often seem to crop up with no Black Library announcement or fanfair at all.

Like, there's a World Bearers Omnibus that came out a couple of weeks ago with Dark Apostle, Dark Disciple and Dark Creed which I don't remember being announced.

Do the Vaults of Terra books describe Terran guardsmen like the Terran Praetorians or Lucifer Blacks at all?

 Haighus wrote:
Do the Vaults of Terra books describe Terran guardsmen like the Terran Praetorians or Lucifer Blacks at all?

Not that I recall. Teh Inquisitor has his own minions and they encounter mechanicus, custodians, and astratelepaths. I don't think you actually see any Terran IG.

Pre-orders https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/11/25/black-library-pre-orders-settle-in-for-some-winter-reading-with-warbosses-and-war-machines/

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
I've been wanting to read the Vaults of Terra series but the first 2 books are just absurdly priced, tend to go for about £40 each (or more).

Really not good that a limited edition signed hardback set would likely be a better option than trying to get the used paperbacks from just a few years ago.

£7.99 each on audible.
(And in fact today the sale is on so you might get those even cheaper)
Coming up on my listening list, not sure on the reader as don’t know who it is yet. But most are very good.

John Banks does the narration of all three Vaults of Terra books, excellent narration in my opinion.

 Scottywan82 wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
Do the Vaults of Terra books describe Terran guardsmen like the Terran Praetorians or Lucifer Blacks at all?

Not that I recall. Teh Inquisitor has his own minions and they encounter mechanicus, custodians, and astratelepaths. I don't think you actually see any Terran IG.

Thanks for the answer. The series is on my reading list but Terran Guard would have bumped it up

I wasted a good chunk of money on their earlier, in-house audiobooks before I realized I don’t have the ability to pay attention to audiobooks.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I wasted a good chunk of money on their earlier, in-house audiobooks before I realized I don’t have the ability to pay attention to audiobooks.

I'm the same. I can read books and I find the stories made for audio good (eg the Gotrek). Short stories are also not too bad, but an actual long audiobook I just can't get into.

I think the issue is a book commands your full attention and an audiobook is much the same for me. So when I try to do it alongside something else my attention gets torn. I can either do the other thing OR listen to the book, but I can't do both; and if I can't do both I'd rather read the book than listen to it.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I wasted a good chunk of money on their earlier, in-house audiobooks before I realized I don’t have the ability to pay attention to audiobooks.

Same. Either I am paying full attention to audio or I will loose some important pieces. Standard books or ebooks are the way for me.

I can only listen to them during work, I walk and cycle a lot, so I can listen to them then. It also helps immensely if the narrator is any good, some really struggle with the material, while others effortlessly make it sound right.

I do miss BL no longer doing audio dramas.

Yeah I'd have liked a few more of Gotrek. Sadly it seems that whatever setup they had for AudioDramas appears to have fallen apart during the Pandemic

It is a shame, as some of the audio dramas leave us hanging on real cliff hangers, like the Agent of the Throne series, though the Covenant series has also seemingly ground to a halt, with the third novel nowhere in sight..

Looks like both of my choices won
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/11/29/black-library-readers-choice-the-winners-revealed/

They were my choices as well!

Finally got a reply from GW concerning the made to order Ghost novels, they've been bumped up from 120 days dispatch to 180(!) days, due to them running out of stock and needing to print up more, yikes.

 BrookM wrote:
I can only listen to them during work, I walk and cycle a lot, so I can listen to them then. It also helps immensely if the narrator is any good, some really struggle with the material, while others effortlessly make it sound right.

I do miss BL no longer doing audio dramas.

This is the same for me, or if I’m doing work round the house or cooking etc.
A good time is if sat hobbying though, as it’s best not to be watching something then anyway.

Finished Da Gobbo Rides Again. It was the best of the three Gobbo's novellas so far.

There better be some Pandaemonium!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/04/the-black-library-preview-is-coming-this-weekend/

 Malika2 wrote:
There better be some Pandaemonium!

Yeah, I want to know if is really behind all of this.

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
There better be some Pandaemonium!

Yeah, I want to know if

Spoiler:

Valdor

is really behind all of this.

Definitely that too! I just wanna know if any major characters will die

I'll just be happy if they actually have some books that aren't 40K. For a big annual event of the year they often have one or no AoS books which always strikes me as odd for what should be the biggest release event of the year for BL