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Title: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: past94x on August 15, 2013, 08:17:40 am
Does anyone know when her new book will be available for download please?
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: alyce alexandra on August 15, 2013, 08:24:55 am
Hi past94x,

The new book Quick Fix: Every Occasion is actually available to download on iTunes today!

Here is the link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/quick-fix-every-occasion/id666187165?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

The hard copies will be available next week.

Thanks so much for your interest,
Alyce
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: past94x on August 15, 2013, 08:45:09 am
Many thanks Alyce - just downloaded it to my Ipad and can't wait to have a good read.
I know I'll love it. Thank you so much.
All I can say is "More,more,more,please!"
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: snappy on August 15, 2013, 09:34:21 am
I've ordered the hard copy - cant wait for it to arrive!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: timfulford on August 15, 2013, 01:37:03 pm
downloaded last night and read this morning. Excellent.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: past94x on August 15, 2013, 02:16:30 pm
Thought it would be. I shall be curling up tonight with my Ipad to have a good read. Can't wait.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: timfulford on August 15, 2013, 03:14:15 pm
interestingly noticed that on the first few pages the images are of popcorn...... but you can't make popcorn in a Thermomix!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Wonder on August 15, 2013, 11:23:50 pm
I just downloaded this to my iPad mini and while there seem to be some great recipes I'm really dissapointed in the format. It almost looks like the book has just been converted to a pdf, in landscape mode I see both the recipe and picture but only in the middle of the screen thereby reducing the size to about 80% and in portrait mode the picture is the same but again only in the middle of the screen only taking up about 50% of the screen size. In both modes the writing is too small to read without zooming in. Unforutnatley my initial reaction is of disappointment.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Nikkit on August 15, 2013, 11:28:34 pm
I ordered the book, can't wait for the posty to bring it.  ;D
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: timfulford on August 16, 2013, 03:58:19 am
Wonder it certainly does have a strange format and it will be a conversion direct from the printed version for use on e readers.
Recipes are good but I agree with the your comments.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: CreamPuff63 on August 16, 2013, 04:18:43 am
I agree also Wonder, and it is disappointing because it just means you are continually readjusting the screen and its annoying trying to flick over a page. I've never come across this before in an e-book. Aside from that, I do like all the recipes. I made the roasted capsicum dip yesterday, and also the mussels. Both of which were enjoyed. (The mussel sauce stained my brand new serviettes  :'() Might have a go at something else today.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Ekusumo on August 16, 2013, 04:19:49 am
Hi Alyce, any chance it will be available outside of Australia store? I'm in Indonesia. Thanks!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Wonder on August 16, 2013, 04:28:01 am
Thanks CP and Tim for confirming my thoughts. I really debated with myself buying this book as I've not had much luck with TMX books in the past, EDC - lots of wrong recipes, Tenina's dinner spinner - total disaster of a binding and useless unless you either make a copy or purchase something else to bind it with, and Tenina's christmas ebook which is also very difficult to scroll through and is basically a pdf booklet. For almost $25 I expected much more of this new one. I look forward to trying some of the recipes over the weekend.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: alyce alexandra on August 16, 2013, 09:14:38 am
Hi Alyce, any chance it will be available outside of Australia store? I'm in Indonesia. Thanks!

Thanks so much for the interest from Indonesia! We do hope one day to be distributing hard copies of our books over there, but for the moment the cost is shipping is prohibitively expensive I apologize :(

Regarding the iBook format, I actually prefer this format over the format of QFITT iBook because it does look exactly like the hard copy (which was the intention!). Obviously though there are many different opinions on this and we will certainly take all on board when producing our next book :)

So glad to hear people are enjoying the recipes! Cheers, alyce
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Ekusumo on August 16, 2013, 09:43:46 am
Hi alyce, apologies. I actually meant the iBook version. It's actually not available in the iBook Indonesian store.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: alyce alexandra on August 16, 2013, 11:29:45 am
Hi alyce, apologies. I actually meant the iBook version. It's actually not available in the iBook Indonesian store.

Thanks for letting me know! It definitely should be. I will talk to my tech people and get back to you on this one next week.

Cheers!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Ekusumo on August 16, 2013, 12:25:29 pm
Thanks! Looking forward to it!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: timfulford on August 16, 2013, 12:32:33 pm
Hi Alyce, any chance it will be available outside of Australia store? I'm in Indonesia. Thanks!

Thanks so much for the interest from Indonesia! We do hope one day to be distributing hard copies of our books over there, but for the moment the cost is shipping is prohibitively expensive I apologize :(

Regarding the iBook format, I actually prefer this format over the format of QFITT iBook because it does look exactly like the hard copy (which was the intention!). Obviously though there are many different opinions on this and we will certainly take all on board when producing our next book :)

So glad to hear people are enjoying the recipes! Cheers, alyce

Just out of interest, why the pop corn? I cite this as the only thing you cant cook in the TM when asked!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Ekusumo on August 16, 2013, 03:44:30 pm
Hi Alyce, just a note, your other previous books are not available in iBook store outside of Australia. Would definitely purchase them if they're available!
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: Wonder on August 16, 2013, 10:09:59 pm
I have the hard book version of QFITT so can't compare, but when compared to other ibooks which replicate actual books for some reason the pages are more difficult to turn and it only takes up a smaller % of the page which means the  print is impossible to read without zooming.  Maybe the set up doesn't work for the iPad Mini. I've got some photos I'm trying to post via Tapatalk  to compare to what others are seeing.
Title: Re: Alyce Alexandra's New Book??
Post by: CreamPuff63 on August 17, 2013, 02:31:33 am
Wonder I have both sizes, and the mini is def a lot harder to read. The bigger iPad is fine, but the QFITT ebook is comparitvely better than this one in the respect that its one page on the screen and easier to turn a page.