Tuesday, July 26, 2011

ReadHowYouWant July 2011 Newsletter


ReadHowYouWant
July 2011
Inside this Issue
1. Update from the U.K.
2. Australia's Miles Franklin Award
3. New Releases in Large Print

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U.K. Titles Set to Launch

RHYW is delighted to report the start of U.K. operations with a contract signed with Lightning Source this week, and the first U.K. publishers coming on board. Andre Deutsch, Watkins Publishing, and Connections are the first publishers to have signed up to RHYW's large print program, and titles will be available online shortly. We have many ongoing discussions and expect the list to expand rapidly over the next months. If you have any questions about becoming a RHYW publisher partner in the U.K., please emailAlex.Mitchell@readhowyouwant.com.
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Congrats to That Deadman Dance!

The Miles Franklin Literary Award was established in 1954, and celebrates Australian character and creativity. It is awarded for the novel of the year.The 2011 award winner is That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Pan Macmillan Australia). That Deadman Dance also won the East Asia and Pacific region's best book category of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize. RHYW is pleased to offer That Deadman Dance in large print and braille to Australian and New Zealand readers here.
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New Releases

Seventeen titles by Bryce Courtenay, including The Power of One (Penguin Australia) are now available in large print and braille. Publishers Weekly praisedThe Power of One as "episodic and bursting with incident..."

Di Morrissey, the author of The Silent Country (Pan Macmillan Australia), is one of Australia's most popular female authors. Eighteen of her titles have been made available in large print, braille, and DAISY. Click here to view the complete list of Morrissey's titles.

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