Lace in Legend

re: Lace in Legend

suzipsews — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:42:43 GMT

I am another customer who will never own an iPad and am very disappointed that this eMag is not offered for the PC. Come on! I receive eMags with interactive content from other companies, so what is the problem with getting this one? At the very least, please make the patterns available for PC users.

Your link to Jaime Guthals' response did not work.

re: Lace in Legend

StephieJo.DLT — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:50:04 GMT

Add me to the list of disappointed readers. I read this article with such excitement - finally, an ebook that I can't live without. But yet, I'm forced to because I don't drink the i-koolaid. I think this was a terrible decision - if you did not want to invest in developing this for the PC audience at the least, you should not have released it. You have too many readers using PC or Android-based devices, that you should develop for them as well.

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cbrownlie — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:32:40 GMT

I do use an iPad but before I download a book I need have a question. How can Ifind the book on the iPad? I downloaded the book on cables and never found it. Thanks!

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annejlee23 — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:58:34 GMT

Add me to the long - and rapidly growing - list of disappointed "Interweavers" over the misguided decision to make this interesting-sounding emag available on ipad only.

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Winja — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:20:06 GMT

Here's the article she intended to link.

www.knittingdaily.com/.../a-new-reason-to-love-lace-knitting.aspx

I certainly agree that if they are going to alienate most of their customers by limiting it to the iPad, the article should at least mention it.

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k4tog — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:14:50 GMT

I tried to go to the link for the PR directors response, but it doesn't work.

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amora76 — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:30:38 GMT

I am also very disappointed that it is iPad only. Seems that if only one platform was going to be developed, it should be the one that the most people have - the computer. Yes, I have an android tablet too and it would be nice to have it for that, but the computer is the main thing. :(

What is really sad is nothing is said about iPad *only* until we are all excited about the product and start looking for the link to buy. Maybe you should make a mailing list for iPad owners only and just promote their products there so the rest of us don't have to be so frustrated.

Also, the link to the comments by PR director is not complete and therefore won't work.

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LisaD — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:16:22 GMT

pretty darn sad about the IPAD only format of LaceKnits - lost another customer here

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maak — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:30:09 GMT

I also think it wasn't a good decision to put this only on ipad. You're really missing a lot of potential customers here. Why are you dissing people who can't afford an ipad? Please at least make the patterns available as PDFs.

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maak — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:28:21 GMT

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Anne Merrow — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:06:17 GMT

The PDF question is a great one. PDFs are terrific for static text, photos, and some links, but the eMags are designed to be interactive and take advantage of all the multimedia possibilities: showing videos right where a technique is explained, popping up detail photos and illustrations, and providing information that just isn't available in a static two-dimensional environment.

PDFs are great, and we make more available in PDF format every day. They just can't do everything that an eMag does, so we make those too.

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debbydecker — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:03:23 GMT

IT is not a big deal to publish as a PDF. I will never buy an iPad. Please rethink this publishing decision.

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Anne Merrow — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:12:25 GMT

As the editor, I wish this were available for every platform everywhere—I'd love to personally deliver a copy to everyone in the world who wants one!—but it's iPad-only at this time.

Our PR Director, Jaime Guthals, has written a thorough response here: www.knittingdaily.com/.../a-new-reason-to-love-lace-knitting.aspx

The landscape for interactive content changes every single day, and we hope it evolves in a way that lets us offer these for more platforms. In the meantime, though, we just couldn't keep building the Flash-based desktop versions. They were a great way to launch the eMag program but they were technically problematic in the extreme, and so are Android-based apps at this time.

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MaryR@105 — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:59:16 GMT

i'm quite unhappy to find that LaceKnits is only available for iPads. I'm primarily a lace knitter and that is why I suscribe to Piecework I don;t own an iPad and never will. If you can't publish these emags so they are available on a variety of devices (PC, Mac, Nook, Kindle and other e-readers) you will lose customers. Limiting yourself to one proprietary device is a very poor business decision.

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ThereseS@7 — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:06:30 GMT

Will LaceKnits be available for PC eventually? This is quite frustrating for those of us who love lace but don't own iPads.