Games Workshop Price Differences across Devices.

[Loranus]

Games-workshop recently released a digital edition of the Eldar Codex for E-readers and Android for 33$.

This same Codex is 50$ on Itunes as well as 50$ hardcover.

Now they Released the Iyanden Supplement on Itunes for 40$ while the Hardcover Version is 50$.

They did not release the Iyanden Supplement for any of the other devices.

I am not a business or marketing major but this doesn't seem to follow any Logical Marketing plan out there.

Any thoughts on this Games-Workshop move?

[the_trooper]

It sounds like one of the only relatively reasonable things GW has done in a long time.

[shwnlyns]

The Iyanden supplement digital copy is more than the Eldar Codex digital copy itself, but only if the Eldar Codex is bought through an e-reader or android market that doesn't also sell the Iyanden supplement? It's a little confusing and I think needs some polishing but cheaper versions of digital copies is pretty cool, although it takes more sales away from the stores trying to sell this already crazy over priced GW stuff.

[Ian Mulligan]

It sounds like one of the only relatively reasonable things GW has done in a long time.

Not releasing it for all digital devices is not reasonable.

[the_trooper]

It sounds like one of the only relatively reasonable things GW has done in a long time.

Not releasing it for all digital devices is not reasonable.

Which ones didn't they release them for?

[Loranus]

The supplement did not get released for anything but IOS. All sorts of books are on iOS that are not on android or ereader devices so you got left out not having an iPad but now that they released the elder codex on there and made the supplement iOS exclusive boggles me.

[blantyr]

The price differences and availability might be more about the media companies than GW.  Companies like Apple tend to have standard contracts with standard percentages of the take.  GW wouldn't have enough clout to change that much.

[the_trooper]

The supplement did not get released for anything but IOS. All sorts of books are on iOS that are not on android or ereader devices so you got left out not having an iPad but now that they released the elder codex on there and made the supplement iOS exclusive boggles me.

Heh, sorry, I just assumed they wouldn't do something that asinine and it would come out, eventually for the same device the codex was on. Then again, it's GW and in this case, the assume clause always applies.