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| RHYW in the News ABC News featured The Illustrated Guide to Assistive Technology and Devices by Suzanne Robitaille (Demos Medical) in their Assistive Technology Report on February 26, 2010. To view the video, click here. Back to top | ||||
| Public Libraries Association Conference 2010 Visit RHYW in Portland, OR March 24-26 at the PLA National Conference. Peyton Staffordand Bradi Grebien-Samkow will be at Booth 1425—stop by to enter to win your own collection of large print books, and find out about our new Standing Order Program. Back to top | ||||
| Featured Publisher Profile: Cleis Press Felice Newman, Founder and Publisher of Cleis Press, was interviewed by RHYW. When asked: Are there one or two titles that you are particularly excited to see available in accessible editions, and why? Felice answered, "Of course The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability. And our erotica catalog—because people with disabilities are often treated like children who must be 'protected' from such terrible things as sexually-explicit literature. And our recent bestseller Living Life As a Thank You: The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude—simply because I am personally in love with that book." To read the full publisher profile, click here. Featured Cleis Press Title: Living Life As a Thank You by Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons—The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude Whatever is given—even a difficult and challenging moment—is a gift. Living as if each day is a thank-you can help transform fear into courage, anger into forgiveness, isolation into belonging, and another's pain into healing. Will Glennon, author of Practice Random Acts of Kindness, praised that this book "can truly transform people's lives—our deep and abiding need to feel and live from a place of gratitude." Click here to learn more about the book. Back to top | ||||
| Things We Love Reviews of three new RHYW titles are available at Large Print Reviews: Choice and Coercionby Johanna Schoen (University of North Carolina Press), DeKok and the Geese of Death by A.C. Baantjer (Speck Press), and The Illustrated Guide to Assistive Technology and Devicesby Suzanne Robitaille (Demos Medical). Of Choice and Coercion LPR Editor Rochelle Caviness praises, "Within the pages of this important history, Schoen also looks at how current reproduction policies and the lack of access to reproduction technologies and medical care are continuing the legacy of...past eugenics programs." Click on each title above to read the full reviews. Back to top | ||||
| 40% Discount Special A new website showcasing large print and accessible editions of titles from Christian publisher partners, including Zondervan, Intervarsity Press, Bridge-Logos, Standard Publishing, Crossway Books, and Destiny Image is now live at www.readhowyouwant.com/ To celebrate this new site, RHYW is offering librarians a 40% discount on all Christian titles through April. We are also extending this discount to personal orders from librarians. Simply build a shopping cart on our web site and then paste it into an email to Peyton Stafford. He will take it from there! To view a complete catalog of titles available to librarians in the United States, click here. (Please be patient while the catalog loads, as load time may take several minutes) To view a complete catalog of titles available to librarians in Australia, click here. (Please be patient while the catalog loads, as load time may take several minutes) Thank you, again, for your interest in our work on behalf of visually impaired readers. | ||||
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
40% discount on Christian titles -- the new The Accessible Librarian
Friday, March 12, 2010
ReadHowYouWant now has 100 publishing partners
For Immediate Release
Contact:
971-340-9853
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.
Monday, March 1, 2010
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