Black Library News & Rumour thread. Annotated Eisenhorn: Malleus. p.135.

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**BrookM**

Damn, got an email just now telling me that my next batch of Ghost hardbacks are finally on their way.

**Adrassil**

Oh, duuuude. Just found out the audiobook version of Blood Pact is now up after checking out of curiosity, lol. Bought it. I've been reading it currently, sloooowly, though. The first time I read a proper book in analogue in a while. Not the best in the series, but I'm still enjoying it a lot.

**Danny76**

So how much content has there been for Callis & Toll now then?

**Chikout**

Danny76 wrote:
So how much content has there been for Callis & Toll now then?

One novella, one full novel, two short stories and two novellas staring side characters that barely feature Callis and Toll themselves. All of those are by Nick Horth. There the hammer and bolter episode, some episodes in Dawnbringers and the new novel that unfortunately isn't By Nick Horth. I've liked some of David Annandale's stuff but he's pretty inconsistent. Nick was probably too busy writing the actual campaign books.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Part of the problem with the queue system is that loyal customers with Silver Skull status get skipped to the head of the line, while super fans with Golden Eagle status can pre-order a few days before the queue opens.

**schoon**

Danny76 wrote:
So how much content has there been for Callis & Toll now then?

Would you recommend The Silver Shard?

**Danny76**

Silver Shard is the only story of theirs I’ve listened to. I really enjoyed it.
Will grab all the other bits.

Shame the new story isn’t by Nick Horth then.
I like most Annandale things I’ve read too, but I don’t like author changes mid way through.

**Kanluwen**

End and Death going back on sale

With just 2,500 copies available, we expected exceptional demand and set a limit of one per customer on the webstore, to keep things fair and to give as many fans as possible the chance to complete their collections.

Unfortunately, we saw an influx of people trying to purchase multiple copies, some aiming to make a resale profit – underhanded tactics worthy of Erebus himself.

We are committed to only selling one per customer, so we have rejected any orders where a purchaser has tried to get more than one copy. Our tech-savants aren’t revealing their methods, but needless to say they are not to be trifled with.

This has left us with extra stock, and the books will be going back on sale at 16:00 GMT on Wednesday the 24th of January on Warhammer.com. The store will go live at the same time in all locations – see the graphic below for details. There will be a queue in place once again.

**endlesswaltz123**

This will surely screw up some scalpers on eBay and the like now. Even better if they have withdrawn the funds and spent it, so will need to reimburse eBay or restart their seller accounts with 0 feedback. Glorious.

**Overread**

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
This will surely screw up some scalpers on eBay and the like now. Even better if they have withdrawn the funds and spent it, so will need to reimburse eBay or restart their seller accounts with 0 feedback. Glorious.

From what I could see most of those scalper accounts were low bidding feedback anyway. Chances are they've dozens of similar small stores like that that they just rotate stock through and likely self-buy stuff to boost their own scores and such

**dienekes96**

If they could retroactively fix the scalping of the first two books of the…8th book, then I might have been able to make a different decision. But alas, as I wouldn’t agree to buy an inflated price on these LEs, I sold my ten LE books (1-7, three novellas) instead. The resulting funds will not be spent on GW products.

And I like to think that GW loses money on this overall laissez-faire approach to scalping, as the people paying a stranger $300 for a book ultimately takes at least $200 away from hobby purchases that they would have made if they could have gotten the book via the expected path. Probably not, but it is a small comfort.

**Overread**

dienekes96 wrote:

And I like to think that GW loses money on this overall laissez-faire approach to scalping, as the people paying a stranger $300 for a book ultimately takes at least $200 away from hobby purchases that they would have made if they could have gotten the book via the expected path. Probably not, but it is a small comfort.

I mean its not really a comfort if you think about it

Money in excess that goes to scalpers in this situation means less money spent on actual companies making hobby stuff.

So yes GW might make $200 less off that person. However that person might support firms other than GW and suddenly their Dystopian Wars or Infinity or whatever other hobby money is gone.

So it can still hurt other firms in the market too. Granted on a limited release like this the impact is small; but if scalping became a huge issue then it would have an increased impact on wargames as a whole. In the end money in scalper pockets helps no one in the hobby from customers to firms

**Shadow Walker**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/24/save-the-date-the-black-library-celebration-is-nearly-here/

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I’m currently in the queue for the queue.

This is terribly, terribly British.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Now in the queue proper. Estimated wait?

More than an hour.

Bum.

**MoD_Legion**

The queue is now paused, gg.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Same.

Hoping it’s some kind of Bot Defeating Tech. But only hoping.

**CragHack**

Oh, I thought it was just me.

**StraightSilver**

Same for me too, I reckon they're probably trying to figure out how it sold out immediately.....

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

BL Nutter seems to have got through, but apparently (no screen shot to confirm) the book isn’t showing.

Maybe this is anti-bot tech going on.

I mean, I doubt it, but it’s a nice and comforting thought.

**MoD_Legion**

That's actually a brilliant strategy to catch scalpers. Put everybody in the queue, ban all the people that actually are buying stuff, because clearly they are using bots.

**Haighus**

Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/24/save-the-date-the-black-library-celebration-is-nearly-here/

Wonder if that model will be available on the webstore at some point. I wanted a warboss with that kind of loadout. Do we know what material it is? BL models are usually resin but not always.

**StraightSilver**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
BL Nutter seems to have got through, but apparently (no screen shot to confirm) the book isn’t showing.

Maybe this is anti-bot tech going on.

I mean, I doubt it, but it’s a nice and comforting thought.

New pre-orders don't always show at the top of the list though, sometimes it's hidden within the previous pre-orders, so you have to scroll to find it.......

**Smaug**

Haighus wrote:
Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/24/save-the-date-the-black-library-celebration-is-nearly-here/

Wonder if that model will be available on the webstore at some point. I wanted a warboss with that kind of loadout. Do we know what material it is? BL models are usually resin but not always.

Last years White Consul figure was plastic. He was available on GW’s and other online sellers sites. I got him from a local comic shop.

**The Phazer**

GW's queue system breaking because there are too many people queuing for it to work is extremely on brand for this new website.

I'm going to bet myself a tenner they end up pulling today's release. Hard to lose that bet tbf.

**Shadow Walker**

Haighus wrote:
Do we know what material it is? BL models are usually resin but not always.

Nope. The only info so far was this https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/09/ufthak-blackhawk-spreads-his-waaagh-to-black-library-with-a-new-novel-and-miniature/

**Kanluwen**

Haighus wrote:
Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/24/save-the-date-the-black-library-celebration-is-nearly-here/

Wonder if that model will be available on the webstore at some point. I wanted a warboss with that kind of loadout. Do we know what material it is? BL models are usually resin but not always.

Black Library models haven't been resin for quite some time.

**Smaug**

Haighus wrote:
Do we know what material it is? BL models are usually resin but not always.

2019 was the last resin Black Library Day figure
Greggor Eisenhorn 2018 resin
Severina Raine 2019 resin
Valerian and Aleya 2020 plastic
Uriel Ventris 2021 plastic
Dominion Zephon 2022 plastic
Fafnir Rann 2022 plastic
Vitrain Messinius 2023 plastic
Ufthak Blackhawk 2024 plastic

**Haighus**

Oh, good to know. Much prefer plastic. Thanks folks.

**jojo_monkey_boy**

I literally had the book in my cart and then the cart crashed. Then it threw me back in the queue.

Games workshop, multi million dollar company selling speciality products or complete amateur hour? Jesus.

**grouch666**

My brother had exactly the same.

503 error and 502 error.

Then it was stuck refreshing and then back of the queue