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Large Print and Accessible Book Publisher ReadHowYouWant Celebrates 100th Publisher Partner to Create Books for Visually Impaired Readers
Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2010—Digital publishing innovator ReadHowYouWant now partners with over 100 publishers in the U.S., Australia, and Canada to create accessible formats of the publishers’ bestselling titles. The Sydney start-up’s award-winning conversion technology repurposes books into high-quality alternative formats, including 16 to 24 point EasyRead® large print, braille, e-books, synthesized audio MP3, and DAISY—a talking book format that produces audio along with the written text. The new editions will be available on or near the time of publication, and should be a welcome response to the growing demand from the disability community for accessible format books.
The two biggest Christian book publishers, Thomas Nelson and Zondervan, are the newest publishers to partner with ReadHowYouWant. Bestselling and Classic Christian titles can be found on ReadHowYouWant’s new Christian website at www.readhowyouwant.com/christian.
Hay House, Wiley, Allen & Unwin, Poisoned Pen Press, New Harbinger Publications, Free Spirit Publishing, University of North Carolina Press, and New World Library are just a few of the general interest, children’s books, mystery, self-help, history, and health publishers whose titles are available in accessible formats at www.readhowyouwant.com. ReadHowYouWant has also formed partnerships with Perseus Books Group and Independent Publishers Group to offer accessible format and e-book conversions to the distributors’ publishers.
“We are thrilled to be working with so many outstanding publishers to make their content accessible and expand the range of content available, while allowing readers to choose the format that is right for them,” says Christopher Stephen, Founder of ReadHowYouWant.
ReadHowYouWant’s library of over 4,500 books includes classics and recent bestsellers, including You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay, Practicing the Power of Now and Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and Creating Affluence by Deepak Chopra, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, and Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh.
ReadHowYouWant’s goals are to make reading easier and more enjoyable by delivering formats that suit the reader, and to give people with reading difficulties access to books in the formats of their choice at an affordable price, and as soon as the book is published. For more information, visit www.readhowyouwant.com.
About ReadHowYouWant
ReadHowYouWant Pty Ltd and its R&D parent company, Accessible Publishing Systems Pty Ltd are both Sydney, Australia-based privately held companies founded in 2004 by electronic publishing pioneers Christopher Stephen and Greg Duncan. When Chris’s sister, who suffers from MS, developed difficulty reading, they began experimenting to determine whether people with reading difficulties could benefit from changing the text format.
After more than four years of testing, ReadHowYouWant has successfully developed award-winning conversion technology that reformats existing books into the widest selection of on-demand, alternative format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability. The company’s goals are to make reading easier and more enjoyable by delivering formats that suit the reader and to give people with reading difficulties access to books in the formats of their choice—at an affordable price, and as soon as the book is published. For more information visit www.readhowyouwant.com.
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