The Accessible Librarian, December 2010 -- Oprah's Picks in Large Print

December 2010 Inside this Issue 1. Oprah Book Club Picks in Large Print 2. RHYW at ALA. Interview with Librarian Sandy Tharp 3. Graywolf Title Wins Award! And More Congratulations! 4. 40% Discount Special

Oprah Picks: Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in Large Print Oprah Winfrey recently announced that two classic titles by Charles Dickens are the next selections for her book club. A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are available in large print, braille, and DAISY from RHYW here. Discussion on both books will begin in January. RHYW is offering a 40% discount to all libraries that order these titles in large print through January 2011. Email Peyton Stafford atpstafford@readhowyouwant.com to place your order.  Back to top Librarian Sandy Tharp Interviewed, Visit RHYW at ALA!  The library of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma recently received a donation of 20 titles in 16pt large print from ReadHowYouWant. Librarian Sandy Tharp heard about RHYW's Library Donation Program at ALA and thought that her library would be a perfect candidate. Sandy and her library participate in the tribe's Community Outreach program which delivers large print or audio books, and daily meals to more than 20 homebound elders. "This gift will touch many sweet people," praises Sandy. RHYW was pleased to make this personal donation, and is looking for other libraries and donors to participate in the Library Donation Program. To read the entire interview with Sandy, click here. For more information on the Library Donation Program, email Maureen Watts atmwatts@readhowyouwant.com.  RHYW is participating in the ALA Midwinter conference in San Diego in early January as a Ruby Sponsor. Stop by booth #1718 to meet with a RHYW representative, or emailbradi@readhowyouwant.com to set up a meeting time. In partnership with the ALA, RHYW is providing the Midwinter Guide in large print and accessible formats. Click here to learn more about these formats, and to sign up to receive email notification when they are ready for download in early January. Back to top Big News from Two of Our Publisher Partners  Congrats to The Mountaineers Books for 50 years of publishing! The Mountaineers Books is located in Seattle, WA, and has been publishing books since 1960. They are a nonprofit publisher founded by the outdoor recreation and conservation organization known as The Mountaineers. Their titles are focused on the outdoors—climbing memoirs, cookbooks, adventure stories, and more. RHYW is proud to provide a number of their titles in large print and accessible editions at www.readhowyouwant.com. More good news! Graywolf Press's I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. The award is given annually to authors of African descent for the year's best works in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. To learn more about the award, and this year's winners, click here. I Am Not Sidney Poitier is available in large print and accessible formats here. Back to top 40% Discounts through January 2011  All titles from The Mountaineers Books and Graywolf Press, as well as the two Oprah Book Club Picks, are 40% off through January 2011. To place your order for these titles, please email Peyton Stafford at pstafford@readhowyouwant.com. If you have any questions regarding library orders, or large print books from RHYW, email Bradi atbradi@readhowyouwant.com.  To view a complete catalog of titles available to librarians in the United States, visit our website at www.readhowyouwant.com.  To view a complete catalog of titles available to librarians in Australia, visit our Australia/New Zealand website at www.readhowyouwant.com/au.  Thank you, again, for your interest in our work on behalf of visually impaired readers.  All the best, ReadHowYouWant -- Accessible Editions www.readhowyouwant.com US Toll-Free +1 866 428 5344 Skype: peytonstafford www.theaccessiblelibrarian.blogspot.com Braille & DAISY books at http://www.readhowyouwant.com/braille  Back to top

ReadHowYouWant Provides Midwinter Guide in Accessible Formats

From the latest ALA Cognotes:

As part of ReadHowYouWant’s Ruby sponsorship of the ALA for the third year in a row, RHYW has converted the ALA Midwinter Guide into accessible formats including large print, braille, and DAISY (a digital format with synchronized text and audio). These formats can be downloaded at http://www.combinedbook.com/ala/ala_readhowyouwant.htm.

Large print and accessible formats publisher ReadHowYouWant is also announcing its Library Donation Program. The goal of the program is to donate large print books to libraries that need to expand their collections, but do not have budgets for more books in large print. All books donated through this program are shipped directly to the library.

More than 150 publishers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand partner with RHYW to release their titles in large print and accessible formats. More than 8,000 titles in a wide variety of genres are currently available for purchase atwww.readhowyouwant.com.

Stop by booth #1718 during ALA Midwinter to see samples of large print books in 16pt, 16pt bold, 18pt, 20pt, and super large 24pt. To set up an appointment, or if you have questions about accessible formats or the Library Donation Program, email Bradi Grebien-Samkow, Publisher Representative, email bradi@readhowyouwant.com.

ReadHowYouWant November Newsletter for Readers

November 2010 Inside this Issue 1. New Publisher Partners 2. RHYW in the News and Online 3. Publisher Profile: Destiny Image 4. RHYW Suggests! 5. Things We Love Follow Us FaceBook Twitter

New Publisher Partners Rockpool Publishing (New South Wales) is RHYW's newest publisher partner! Rockpool is an Australian-owned publisher, specializing in mind-body-spirit, family, and general nonfiction publishing. Many of their bestselling titles will soon be available in large print, braille, and DAISY, including You Are Clairvoyant: Developing the Secret Skill We All Have by Belinda Grace, and Numerology: Numbers and Their Influence by RoseMaree Templeton. A complete list of Rockpool's titles can be viewed atwww.rockpoolpublishing.com.au.  Back to top RHYW in the News and Online!   Bookseller + Publisher's October 27th issue announced RHYW's recent moveinto the New Zealand market, and a number of partnerships with New Zealand and Australian publishers. "ReadHowYouWant converts and republishes books in larger print sizes for visually impaired people who are unable to read books in standard print sizes...The Australian operation also converts and republishes books in Braille, audiobook and ebook formats."  Michael Covington, Information and Education Director of the ECPA, wrote a blog post for Brandilyn Collins's Seatbelt Suspense Forensics & Faith blog. "As there is no revenue stream for publishers (or royalties for authors) generated by accessible-content services such as Bookshare, most publishers will only occasionally license their content for large-print distribution (meaning 16-poing font) with companies such as Thorndike Press. Unfortunately, for many people affected by reading disabilities, a barely-larger font size doesn't solve the problem. Keep in mind that while Bookshare and NLS provide digitally produced audio files, not everyone has the equipment necessary to consume this media...RHYW has worked through all of these issues to provide a print-on-demand solution that allows the reader to pick the style of book they want…This model allows for additional revenue which is then shared with the publishers." To read the entire post, click here.  Back to top Publisher Profile: Destiny Image "Destiny Image successfully releases over 100 new titles each year and distributes over 1.5 million books annually worldwide," states President Don Nori, Jr. RHYW asked Don about how Destiny Image selects authors, their relationship with Dr. Myles Munroe, how technology is affecting Christian book publishers, and more. "Don Nori Sr. and his wife Cathy founded Destiny Image in 1983. They began the business from a small desk and rotary phone in the living room of their home. Don Sr. had a vision from God that he was to publish books for authors that other publishers would not carry." To read the entire interview with Don Nori Jr., click here.  Back to top RHYW Suggests! Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig from Crossway Books is a title that RHYW is excited to have available to print disabled readers in braille and DAISY. William Lane Craig has revised and updated key sections in this third edition of his classic text to reflect the latest work in astrophysics, philosophy, probability calculus, the arguments for the existence of God, and Reformed epistemology. His approach—that of positive apologetics—gives careful attention to crucial questions and concerns, including, the relationship of faith and reason, the existence of God, the problems of historical knowledge and miracles, the personal claims of Christ, and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. Click here to learn more about the availability of this title in accessible formats. Back to top Things We Love  Reviewer Herbert White writes, "In 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Exisle Publishing), Ashley Ekins, head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial, has compiled a fascinating collection of essays by many leading, modern historians on the history of the First World War" at LargePrintReviews.com. Other reviews this month include An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose (Allen & Unwin), and Cretaceous Dawn by L.M. Graziano and M.S.A. Graziano (Leapfrog Press). Click on each title to read the reviews.  Back to top

The Winter 2010 - 2011 Indie Next List for Reading Groups | Bookselling This Week

The Winter 2010 - 2011 Indie Next List for Reading Groups | Bookselling This Week

ABA has released their Indie Next List for Reading Groups. ReadHowYouWant has the large print edition of Tinkers.

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ReadHowYouWant offers readers the option to read the books they want in large print. The November Hot List features some particularly exciting titles newly available in large print, and all titles on the Hot List are 40% off to librarians!
November 2010 Inside this Issue 1. The Adderral Diaries by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press) 2. The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas (Hachette New Zealand) 3. Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This! by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins New Zealand) 4. Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Callingby Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) 5. The Keening by A. LaFaye (Milkweed Editions)	The Adderral Diaries by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press)  Time Out New York gave The Adderral Diaries their highest rating, 5 stars, and praised the book as "Superb." Stephen Elliott's groundbreaking memoir pursues parallel investigations: the trial of Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina, and a scorching investigation of the author's self. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war and in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom, the book is tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as "a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you've never quite seen it before." To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats,  click here. Back to top The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas (Hachette New Zealand) In the three stories that make up The Ihaka Trilogy, maverick cop Tito Ihaka is a detective sergeant in Auckland. "Old School Tie" is about the unlocking of a dark 25-year-old secret relating to a teenage girl's mysterious suicide at a private school ball. Freelance journalist Reggie Sparks's investigation spills over into an underworld turf war involving the Sydney mafia and a ferocious Maori gang, the Blood Drinkers. "Inside Dope" involves a race for the lost treasure of the Mr. Asia drug syndicate which attracts the attention of a rogue American narcotics agent and the CIA, while "Guerilla Season" pits Ihaka against a shadowy and sinister terrorist group in a case which turns out to have links to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. New Zealand Woman's Weeklypraises The Ihaka Trilogy as "Relentlessly tough yet hilarious, ingeniously plotted and full of killer one-liners, and featuring a rogue's gallery of weird and wild characters." To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here.  Back to top Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This!by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins New Zealand) Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? Do your kids sometimes make you feel like your head is going to explode? For parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that bad behavior has inevitable consequences, this is the perfect book. Practical commonsense answers and real life examples, logical and realistic strategies, and innovative behavior modification tools that work in the real world—all from a parent and family therapist who's seen almost everything there is to see and offers some hard-won battlefield wisdom. Written in down-to-earth language, this book needs to be handed out at birth! It's an essential guide for the struggling parent who knows family life can and should be better. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here.  Back to top Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)  Everyone has a calling—something they were born to do. Heeding your calling is about deliberately choosing a way of life and work consistent with your gifts, passions, and values. It's a labor of love that is intrinsically satisfying. Whistle While You Work is a liberating guide to helping people discover and heed their calling. Through powerful stories and exercises this book helps readers discover how to make a living doing what they were born to do. Author Richard J. Leider is a founding partner of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm devoted to bringing out the natural potential in people. David A. Shapiro is the Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, a non-profit organization that brings philosophy into the lives of young people in schools and community groups. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here.  Back to top ReadHowYouWant also provides children and young adult readers with a wide variety of choices in large print and accessible formats. The Keening by A. LaFaye (Milkweed Editions) Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother gone, Lyza must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed, especially now that he claims he's waiting for the return of his dead wife. Can Lyza save her father and find her own path in the process? This title is perfect for grades 6 through 9. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here .  Back to top To view all featured Adult Titles on the November Hot List, click here. To view the featured Children and Young Adult Titles on the November Hot List, click here. Don't forget—all books included in the Hot List are 40% off through November! Simply build a shopping cart on our website, www.readhowyouwant.com, and email it to Peyton Stafford. To see the full selection of titles available in accessible editions, including large print, braille, DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System), and audio from ReadHowYouWant, visit www.readhowyouwant.com

Big News! Big Titles!

Read Them When They're Hot. And New!
ReadHowYouWant is pleased to announce two new, huge, publisher partners: HarperCollins New Zealand and Hachette New Zealand! To celebrate, we are featuring The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas and Politically Incorrect Parenting by Nigel Latta in the November Hot List.
November 2010 Inside this Issue 1. The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas (Hachette New Zealand) 2. Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This! by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins New Zealand) 3. The Adderral Diaries by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press) 4. Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) 5. The Keening by A. LaFaye (Milkweed Editions)	The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas (Hachette New Zealand)  In the three stories that make up The Ihaka Trilogy, maverick cop Tito Ihaka is a detective sergeant in Auckland. "Old School Tie" is about the unlocking of a dark 25-year-old secret relating to a teenage girl's mysterious suicide at a private school ball. Freelance journalist Reggie Sparks's investigation spills over into an underworld turf war involving the Sydney mafia and a ferocious Maori gang, the Blood Drinkers. "Inside Dope" involves a race for the lost treasure of the Mr. Asia drug syndicate which attracts the attention of a rogue American narcotics agent and the CIA, while "Guerilla Season" pits Ihaka against a shadowy and sinister terrorist group in a case which turns out to have links to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. New Zealand Woman's Weeklypraises The Ihaka Trilogy as "Relentlessly tough yet hilarious, ingeniously plotted and full of killer one-liners, and featuring a rogue's gallery of weird and wild characters." To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here. Back to top Politically Incorrect Parenting: Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This! by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins New Zealand) Why is it so hard to be the parent you thought you would be? Do your kids sometimes make you feel like your head is going to explode? For parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that bad behavior has inevitable consequences, this is the perfect book. Practical common sense answers and real life examples, logical and realistic strategies, and innovative behavior modification tools that work in the real world—all from a parent and family therapist who's seen almost everything there is to see and offers some hard-won battlefield wisdom. Written in down-to-earth language, this book needs to be handed out at birth! It's an essential guide for the struggling parent who knows family life can and should be better. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here.  Back to top The November Hot List also features the following titles for adults: The Adderral Diaries by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press) Time Out New York gave The Adderral Diaries their highest rating, 5 stars, and praised the book as "Superb." Stephen Elliott's groundbreaking memoir pursues parallel investigations: the trial of Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina, and a scorching investigation of the author's self. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war and in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom, the book is tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as "a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you've never quite seen it before." To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats,click here.  Back to top Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)  Everyone has a calling—something they were born to do. Heeding your calling is about deliberately choosing a way of life and work consistent with your gifts, passions, and values. It's a labor of love that is intrinsically satisfying. Whistle While You Work is a liberating guide to helping people discover and heed their calling. Through powerful stories and exercises this book helps readers discover how to make a living doing what they were born to do. Author Richard J. Leider is a founding partner of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm devoted to bringing out the natural potential in people. David A. Shapiro is the Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, a non-profit organization that brings philosophy into the lives of young people in schools and community groups. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here. Back to top ReadHowYouWant also provides children and young adult readers with a wide variety of choices in large print and accessible formats. The Keening by A. LaFaye (Milkweed Editions) Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother gone, Lyza must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed, especially now that he claims he's waiting for the return of his dead wife. Can Lyza save her father and find her own path in the process? This title is perfect for grades 6 through 9. To learn more about this title in large print and accessible formats, click here.  Back to top To view all featured Adult Titles on the November Hot List, click here. To view the featured Children and Young Adult Titles on the November Hot List, click here. To see the full selection of titles available in accessible editions, including large print, braille, DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System), and audio from ReadHowYouWant, visit www.readhowyouwant.com

October 2010 ReadHowYouWant Newsletter

October 2010 Newsletter Inside this Issue 1. New Publisher Partners 2. Publisher Profile: Lobster Press 3. RHYW Suggests! 4. Things We Love Follow Us FaceBook Twitter

New Publisher Partners Big News! RHYW has two new publisher partners in New Zealand:HarperCollins New Zealand (Glenfield, Auckland) was established in 1888. HarperCollins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers. Bestselling New Zealand fiction authors include Ben Sanders and Deborah Challinor. Nonfiction bestsellers such as The Power of Mothers by Celia Lashlie and Politically Incorrect Parenting by Nigel Latta top HarperCollins New Zealand's list. Hachette New Zealand (Mairangi Bay, Aukland) is the publisher of The Ihaka Trilogy by Paul Thomas, which is now available in large print, DAISY, and braille from RHYW. Hachette is the third largest book publisher in the world, and was founded in 1863. They publish books for children and adults in a wide variety of genres. RHYW is pleased to announce its newest publisher partners through Perseus Books Group and Constellation. Healthy Travel Media (Chapel Hill, NC) is the publisher of Patients Beyond Borders by Josef Woodman. In its second edition,Patients Beyond Borders has grown into a trusted resource in medical travel. Long River Press (San Francisco, CA) is an independent publisher producing books on all aspects of traditional and contemporary Chinese history, society, art, and culture. Highly praised titles include In the Realm of the Gods by Victoria Cass. Hawthorne Books's (Portland, OR) new releases include Loretta Stinson's Little Green. Their catalog is made up of essay collections, memoirs, and fiction titles. Back to top Publisher Profile: Lobster Press   Stephanie Hindley, Director of Sales & Marketing for Lobster Press, was interviewed by RHYW. Her answer to the question "What technological changes are most affecting the children and YA publishing industries?" discusses both new opportunities and challenges: "There are a lot of opportunities out there, especially for children's publishers. In addition to the ebook market, which is affecting everyone, we are also working with different companies to develop and distribute animated and online audio versions of our books, and more. ReadHowYouWant provided us with an especially unique opportunity, not only to get alternative editions of our books distributed, but to deliver multiple formats directly to consumers, digitally. The biggest change for us is simply time management. We now need to make time to focus on these new markets, while still maintaining and growing our line of print books." To read the full interview with Lobster Press, click here. Back to top RHYW Suggests! It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been author BJ Gallagher has answered a few questions for RHYW. Among them is "Do you think the author's role in the publishing process has changed at all in recent years?" To which BJ has answered, "I always tell authors, 'Your book is your baby. And Nobody loves your baby as much as you do...It's your job to get out there and help your baby succeed. It's a bit like being a parent..." To read the full interview with BJ Gallagher, click here. To learn more about It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been in large print and accessible formats, click here. Back to top Things We Love  Michael Covington, the Information and Education Director for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) wrote an article about RHYW on theForensics & Faith blog. "ECPA has been working with a company called ReadHowYouWant for the last few years...to give publishers greater incentive to make new/popular content available for those with reading disabilities." To read the full post, click here. LargePrintReviews.com features reviews of The Plague by Joanne Dahme (Running Press), which reviewer Simone Bonim describes as a young adult "...work of historical fiction with a gritty bite..." Other reviews include Island in a Storm by Abby Sallenger (PublicAffairs Books) and Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman (New World Library). Click on each title to read the reviews. Back to top