The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design is now available on Apple’s iBookstore, so those of you with iPads can grab it directly from there if you prefer. (It’s available on Amazon’s Kindle store, too — the difference between buying from them or directly from us comes down to DRM, of course).

One of our Twitter friends even snapped a photo for us:

No question. If you order an ebook directly from Cooperative Press, unless otherwise stated (and believe me, there would have to be a lot of convincing on our end to get it to happen), there will NOT be DRM on the file. We say this now, clearly and for the record, because digital editions of our title The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design will soon be available in Apple’s iBookstore, and also directly from Amazon for the Kindle.

Cooperative Press can’t control what Apple and Amazon do, DRM-wise (in the case of Amazon, it’s financial suicide for us not to submit to their DRM preferences, as it slashes our royalties from 70% to 35%), but we can control what we do here, and we choose not to add DRM to our files. We trust you, our customers, supporters and friends, to do the right thing and respect our copyrights, and so we don’t see the need to tack an extra layer of something-that-could-go-wrong on.

Speaking of ebooks, if you ordered the ebook edition of The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design, the updated file was sent out today, and in addition, part one of many conversations between Knitgrrl Guide author Shannon Okey and author Donna Druchunas about ebooks went live on Donna’s site today.

It’s official. The Kindle is, in fact, amazing.

Judging from the comments here at Knitgrrl, there are more crafty Kindlers out there than previously thought. anezka media is announcing its commitment to supporting the Kindle and other electronic platforms wherever possible and plans to release Kindle editions of our upcoming titles. Interested in being a member of our test group? Leave a comment.

anezka media and its related ventures are looking for 2008 spring and summer interns. Please see the 2007 intern announcement for the basics and submit your resume accordingly. Our upcoming booklist is still primarily craft and needlearts-focused, so experience with or interest in crafting is a plus. You will be working with our CEO on a number of interesting projects, and we will work with your school’s program to provide academic credits.

The photo at left is our author Jonelle Raffino’s book poster at the National Needlearts Association show in Long Beach, California this past week. Purls Forever is still selling very well, and Jonelle’s yarn company, South West Trading Company, remains an inspiration to small businesses everywhere. Readers really love the personal touch her stories give to the patterns!

The TNNA show was enlightening in many ways – Alchemy Yarns has just self-published an amazing book which shows the power of vision in the publishing process, and of staying true to your design sense.

What I loved most about Gina’s book (the amazing Gina Wilde, the force of nature behind Alchemy Yarns) was the models – all shapes, sizes and ages! I once heard a statistic about the percentage of knitters who are over size 14, and it was well over 50%. So why use 20-lb 15-year-old models to advertise knitting-related products? Well done, Gina!

We’re rearranging the virtual furniture at anezka media and all our related sites as we transition to a new content management system. Spring 2007 book line information is coming soon — sign up for our mailing list to receive more information as it becomes available.