Friday, April 30, 2010

Humanware Free Chapter Download update

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ReadHowYouWant and HumanWare are pleased to announce the launch of the new My Dream Classroom website. This interactive tool was designed to help educators discover different solutions for students who are blind, or have low vision or learning disabilities. It will also help them find out how assistive technologies can increase their students’ learning independence.
As in previous months, and to continue to celebrate ReadHowYouWant’s relationship with HumanWare, five full titles are available for download in DAISY and braille from our Classics collection. Classics titles selected for the April Free Download Program are Ovid’sMetamorphosesA Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet.
ReadHowYouWant is also offering 20 free Chapter Downloads of popular contemporary titles atwww.readhowyouwant.com/humanware.
The list of the 20 Free Chapter Downloads includes:
Titles for Adults
Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage by Raquel Welch (Weinstein Books)
Driftless by David Rhodes (Milkweed Editions)
Sylvia Browne’s Book of Angels by Sylvia Browne (Hay House)
Speak Easy by Maggie Eyre (Exisle Publishing)
Wake Up and Smell the Planet by Grist Magazine (The Mountaineers Books)
Best Australian Poems 2009 by Robert Adamson (Black Inc.)
Hemingway in Spain by David P. Reiter (Interactive Publications)
Fire Your Doctor! by Steve Hickey (Basic Health Publications)
Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker: Family Favorites by Beth Hensperger (Harvard Common Press)
Improving Your Memory for Dummies by John B. Arden (Wiley)
Titles for Children and Young Adults
Green Technology by Geeta Sobha (Rosen)
The Behavioral Survival Guide for Kids by Tom McIntyre (Free Spirit Publishing)
The Native American Book of Knowledge by White Deer (Beyond Words Publishing)
Yosemite: Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome by Mike Graf (Fulcrum Publishing)
The Richest Kids in America by Mark Victor Hansen (Hay House)
Zibby Payne & the Red Carpet Revolt by Alison Bell (Lobster Press)
Death at Deacon Pond by E.M. Alexander (Lobster Press)
Energy for the Future and Global Warming: Solar Power by Anne Rooney (Weekly Reader)
Today’s Superstars Entertainment: Jim Carrey by Amy Stone (Weekly Reader)
America Debates: Privacy Versus Security by Jeri Freedman (Rosen)
Love the way our files read on your DAISY player, or have suggestions to make for a better reading experience? See a book on our site that you’d love to be included in an upcoming month’s Free Download list? Email Bradi Grebien-Samkow, Associate Publicist, at bradi@readhowyouwant.com. Also, don’t forget that ReadHowYouWant posts assistive technology and publishing news stories, book reviews, and promotional announcements on Twitter, Facebook, and the ReadHowYouWant blog: www.facebook.com/readhowyouwantwww.readhowyouwant.com/blog.
Bradi Grebien-Samkow
Associate Publicist
ReadHowYouWant
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