40% discount on Christian titles -- the new The Accessible Librarian

New Publisher Partners RHYW is pleased to announce its newest publisher partners: Thomas Nelson, Inc. (Nashville, TN) is a leading provider of Bibles, products, and live events emphasizing Christian, inspirational, and family value themes. Their list of bestsellers includes Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs and 3:16 by Max Lucado. Zondervan (Grand Rapids, MI) is a world leader in Christian communications, publishing approximately 200 books per year. Their bestselling title, The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. To read a press release on Thomas Nelson and Zondervan, click here.Ben Bella Books (Dallas, TX) publishes nonfiction books aimed at niche markets, including popular culture, quirky reference, and mind-blowing science. Recent releases include The Accidental Millionaire by Gary Fong and The Bra Book by Jené Luciani. Back to top
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/christian. Visitors to the site can browse Christian titles by publisher, author, title, or subject, as well as view current bestsellers, and check out different formats to determine the format that is best for them. 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.

Free Chapter Download Program by Humanware and ReadHowYouWant

	Free Chapter Download Program August 2009 20 New Titles Available (a large print text only version is available at: http://www.humanware.ca/web/en/newsletter/51-t.htm ) Summer is a great time to enjoy reading while on your vacation or to be taken to another world while at home. We look forward to hearing feedback on the great stories that you're reading. August is another opportunity to try 20 new titles with http://www.readhowyouwant.com/humanware Free Chapter Download Program. We encourage you to explore the list below. HumanWare, the leader in assistive technologies for people with print disabilities, and digital publishing innovator, ReadHowYouWant, are partnering to help individuals with reading disabilities and visually impairments discover the book reading device and the format that suits them best. Please tell your friends, colleagues and the members of your teams that this exciting promotion will be going on for the rest of the year, and encourage them to visit http://www.readhowyouwant.com/humanware for a list of current titles as titles change monthly. The titles selected for the month of July are: Titles for Adults Excuses Begone! by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pildington And the Rat Laughed by Nava Semel I Break for Meltdowns by Michelle Nicholasen and Barbara O’Neal Brotherhood of the Rope by Bernadette McDonald The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra Prompt and Utter Destruction by J. Samuel Walker How to Talk with Your Doctor by Ronald L. Hoffman You Don’t Have to Do it Alone by Richard H. Axelrod In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton Titles for Children and Young Adults Scratch Kitten on the Pirate’s Shoulder by Jessica Green and Mitch Vane Fighting Invisible Tigers by Earl Hipp Kids With Courage by Barbara A. Lewis Girls Who Rocked the World 2 by Michelle Roehm The Adventures of Molly Whuppie by Anne Shelby Bringing Up Parents by Alex J. Packer Speak Up and Get Along by Scott Cooper Will Jones’ Space Adventures and the Money Formula by Christine Thompson-Wells Treading the Boards by Celeste Walters What Teens Need to Succeed by Peter Benson, Judy Galbraith, and Pamela Espeland People around the world are able to participate in this program, as well as purchase books on RHYW's website, www.readhowyouwant.com. About HumanWare HumanWare (www.humanware.com) is the global leader in assistive technologies for the print disabled. HumanWare provides products to people who are blind and have low vision and students with learning disabilities. HumanWare offers a full range of low vision products including the SmartView Xtend desktop video magnifier, the SmartView Pocket and Nano handheld electronic magnifiers, and the myReader2, HumanWare's unique "auto-reader". HumanWare's other innovative products include the BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for the blind in education, business and for personal use; the Victor Reader product line, the world's leading digital audiobook players, and the ClassMate Reader, the only portable book player to offer synchronised text and audio for individuals. 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.

ALA 2009 Presentation to ASCLA -- Large Print for All: Bigger is Better

I will be presenting as part of a panel on Sunday morning. The gist of my presentation is that
Libraries have an opportunity to increase their patron base by better serving visually impaired patrons. This will allow them to retain current patrons as those patrons age, and it will also allow them to retrieve or recover patrons who have stopped using the public library because of the limited range of books available in large print. ReadHowYouWant has the technology to make this practical by lowering the cost of large print editions.

A PDF of my presentation is here. If you want it in PowerPoint format, let me know.

ALA 2009 Conference Guide in Accessible Editions

For the second year, RHYW will be producing the American Library Association Conference (July 9-15 in Chicago) Guide in accessible formats, including large print and braille. RHYW will also be providing accessible editions for the Australian Bookseller Conference (June 21-23 in Manly, AU). As well, RHYW will be attending the National Federation of the Blind Convention on July 3-8 in Detroit. Click here to go to the ALA download page, where you can download our Accessible Editions of the ALA Conference Guide, Exhibits Guide, and ads.

Chris Stephens' Paper on Making Libraries Accessible for an Aging Population

Chris Stephen is the founder of ReadHowYouWant, and it is his vision of all books becoming accessible to all readers that drives the company. Here is a paper he recently presented at a conference on libraries and aging.

Six New Publishing Partners

As a result of a busy BEA meeting schedule, RHYW has signed six new publishing partners. Hay House (Carlsbad, CA) publishes inspirational titles by leading authors, including Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, whose latest book, Excuses Begone! appeared last week as #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Renowned scientific publishing company, Springer (New York, NY), will begin partnering with RHYW on the re-issue of the popular Cherry Ames nursing series. Poisoned Pen (Scottsdale, AZ) is an independent publisher specializing in high-quality mysteries. The Harvard Common Press (Boston, MA) is one of the nation's leading publishers of cookbooks and parenting books. New Harbinger Publications (Oakland, CA) was recently featured in Publishers Weekly as a growing publisher of self-help, psychology, and health titles. San Francisco publisher Cleis Press publishes provocative, intelligent books in the areas of sexuality, gender studies, and human rights.

Hay House (Carlsbad, CA) was founded by Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life, which went on to sell over 35 million copies (and it's said she is the second bestselling female author of all time, after J.K. Rowling). RECENTLY DUBBED "the closest thing to a living saint" by the Australian media, Louise L. Hay is also known as one of the founders of the self-help movement. Her first book, Heal Your Body, was published in 1976, long before it was fashionable to discuss the connection between the mind and body. Revised and expanded in 1988, this best-selling book introduced Louise's concepts to people in 33 different countries and has been translated into 25 languages throughout the world.

Hay House is known for its bestselling authors in the inspirational, health and healing genre, including:
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Louise L. Hay, Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Doreen Virtue, Gregg Braden, Sylvia Browne, Esther and Jerry Hicks (The Law of Attraction), Dr. Christiane Northrup, Montel Williams, and Suze Orman.

We will be starting out with all of Dr. Wayne Dyer's titles--including Excuses Begone!--as well as all of Louise Hay's titles, and more (essentially a combination of Hay House's top authors and top 100 bestselling titles).

ALA 2009 Conference Guide in Accessible Editions

For the second year, RHYW will be producing the American Library Association Conference (July 9-15 in Chicago) Guide in accessible formats, including large print and braille. RHYW will also be providing accessible editions for the Australian Bookseller Conference (June 21-23 in Manly, AU). As well, RHYW will be attending the National Federation of the Blind Convention on July 3-8 in Detroit. Click here to go to the ALA download page, where you can download our Accessible Editions of the ALA Conference Guide.

Top 50 Bestselling Classic Authors

When ReadHowYouWant first started, we did a little research on the bestselling classic authors in terms of worldwide sales. We found some lists from the BBC and other sources in publishing and then kludged them together to create our own. Occasionally, we now get a question from a librarian who wants to select some popular classic fiction titles for her collection. In answer to that question, I am posting a list of top-selling authors. We have the complete works of most of them available in large print, DAISY and braille.

Here is the list. At the end of the list, I will add a few authors who should also be considered by librarians who are looking for popular fiction in large print. I apologize for not putting it into alphabetical order. This is more in the order that we re-typeset the books.
In some cases we have all of their works available. In others, we have not yet completed all of them. If you search by author on our web site, you can find them. If you would prefer a spreadsheet that you can sort, please let me know so I can email it to you.

The Top 50 Bestselling Classic Authors

*Names with asterisks are sure-fire authors in terms of popularity.

Kenneth Grahame
R. D. Blackmore
*Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Tressell
*Victor Hugo
Wilkie Collins
Aesopus
Lucius Apuleius
John Arbuthnot
Honore de Balzac
Benito Perez Galdos
John Keats
*Bram Stoker
*Joseph Conrad
*Mark Twain
Aphra Behn
Anthony Trollope
Oscar Wilde
Charles Kingsley
*Charles Robert Maturin
Lewis Carroll
*Anne Bronte
*Arthur Conan Doyle
Samuel Butler
Ann Radcliffe
Alexander Pope
*Louisa May Alcott
Jules Verne
John Bunyan
*Thomas Hardy
*Jane Austen
*Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
James Boswell
Henry Fielding
*Charlotte Brontë
Leo Tolstoy
*Alexandre Dumas
D. H. Lawrence
*Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Baring-Gould
Charlotte Lennox
Anna Sewell
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Eliot
Herman Melville
Jerome K. Jerome
Johanna Spyri
John Galsworthy

Some Additional Popular Authors

Horatio Alger
L. Frank Baum
Willa Cather
James Fennimore Cooper
Daniel de Foe
H. Rider Haggard
Bret Harte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry James
Ring Lardner
Jack London
Captain Frederick Marryat
Guy de Maupassant
Sir Walter Scott
William Shakespeare

Microsoft Typography - Features of TrueType and OpenType

Microsoft Typography - Features of TrueType and OpenType

Thanks to Claudia Kelley, the excellent ergonomist of Washington State Labor and Industries, for telling me about MicroSoft's ClearType Tuner. It lets you fine-tune the screen fonts on your XP or later Windows computer so that they work best for your eyes. I installed and configured it in about 3 minutes, and it seems to be working correctly. The fonts actually do appear clearer on my screen. I can hardly wait to see how it works with TiresiasLP.

If anyone else tries this, please let me know how it works for you.

New Publisher Partner: Bridge-Logos Publishing

Here is another new Publisher Partner in the Evangelical Christian Publisher Association (ECPA) group. They expect to be offering all of their titles in the standard formats and many as e-Books.

Bridge-Logos Publishing

Bridge-Logos Foundation is a Christian book publishing ministry based in Alachua, Florida. The company began in 1967 as Logos International Fellowship in Plainfield, New Jersey. Its first best-selling book was Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz. Some famous titles published by Logos are Nine O'clock in the Morning by Dennis Bennett, Prison to Praise by Merlin Carothers, and Prayer Is Invading the Impossible by Jack Hayford. All of these titles are still in print.

The company was purchased by Mr. Raymond Stanbury in 1981. He was the President of Valley Books Trust in Chepstow, Gwent, Wales, the largest Christian book distributor in Europe. He changed the name of the company to Bridge Publishing, Inc. and moved its offices to South Plainfield, New Jersey.

In 1991, Mr. Guy Morrell joined Bridge Publishing. Four years later he purchased the company and changed its name to Bridge-Logos, Inc. Under his administration, the company began publishing a very popular series—Pure Gold Classics—Christian classics that have been sense revised into modern English. There are now more than thirty titles in this distinctive line, including works by Spurgeon, Moody, Tozer, Bunyan, Wesley, and many others. Bridge-Logos Publishers eventually moved to Florida. The company has published many books by well-known writers, such as Dr. David Yonggi Cho, Liberty Savard, Ray Comfort, Jack Hayford, Kirk Cameron, and Kathryn Kuhlman. One of its best-selling works is The Evidence Bible, which was developed by Ray Comfort to help believers share their faith. Guy Morrell died in May, 2007. His widow, Catherine Morrell, inherited the company and decided to change it into a not-for-profit foundation so that books could be given to pastors and believers in underprivileged areas and to prisoners, as well.

We look forward to providing large print, braille and DAISY editions of their books.

ReadHowYouWant featured in Australian Technology Showcase Newsletter

To quote:

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille’s birth, accessible publishing innovator and ATS Alumni member Accessible Publishing Systems has released its braille and DAISY bookshop at www.readhowyouwant.com/braille. Accessible Publishing Systems began in 2008 to publish, in partnership with international publishers, large print book formats ranging from 16 to 24 point fonts, and to make it easy for them to service the visually impaired. Blind readers now have access to thousands of titles in braille.

“We’ve developed an XML software program that can mark up a book into a number of different accessible formats. This allows us to quickly and efficiently create braille and DAISY files and literally produce hundreds of books in the time it has taken others to just do a few titles,” says Christopher Stephen, Accessible Publishing System’s founder.

In other news, the company has announced that it has begun partnering with Random House Australia and Murdoch Books to create accessible editions of their best-selling titles.

University of Queensland Press to Partner with ReadHowYouWant

I’m very happy to announce a new publishing partner – University of Queensland Press (UQP).

UQP - http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/

For more than 60 years, the University of Queensland Press has been at the forefront of innovative Australian publishing. It has launched the careers of many great Australian novelists, published contemporary Australian poets, been a pioneering force in children's and young adult publishing and has set the benchmark for award-winning scholarly and Black Australian writing.

UQP is a dynamic university press known for its risk-taking philosophy and commitment to publishing works of high quality and cultural significance.

UQP is a very respected medium sized publisher in Australia – who have launched some of the most famous Australian Authors including Peter Carey (sadly not with them anymore!) and David Malouf.

Their work covers fiction, politics, Australiana, biography, history, art, poetry, and a strong children’s section as well.

They are also regular award winners - http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/awards.php

We are still in discussion over the best books to launch this with, but they are keen to get all of their books up onto our system quite quickly.

Forthcoming Titles from New World Library

Great news. New World Library is giving us the following big bestsellers in the following formats. These will go to the top of our production queue and should be ready for purchase within a month or less.


PRACTICING THE POWER OF NOW, Eckhart Tolle — EasyRead Large Type (I though
I'd licensed a large print edition, but I hadn't)

SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS, Deepak Chopra — EasyRead Large Type,
Braille, Daisy Only

CREATING AFFLUENCE, Deepak Chopra — EasyRead Large Type, Braille, Daisy Only

WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR, DAN MILLMAN — EasyRead Large Type, Braille,
Daisy Only

HANDBOOK FOR THE SPIRIT, Richard Carlson — EasyRead Large Type, Braille,
Daisy Only

HumanWare and ReadHowYouWant Join Forces to Bring Books to Visually Impaired Readers

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Bradi Grebien-Samkow: bradi@readhowyouwant.com

503-922-0778

Contact:

Julien Larose: julien.larose@humanware.com

888-723-7273 x357

HumanWare and ReadHowYouWant Join Forces to Bring Books to Visually Impaired Readers

Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2009—HumanWare, the leader in assistive technologies for people with print disability, and digital publishing innovator ReadHowYouWant are partnering to help visually impaired readers discover the book reading device, and the format that’s right for their reading needs.

ReadHowYouWant offers thousands of books in accessible formats, including 24 pt. large print, braille, and DAISY files at www.readhowyouwant.com. HumanWare provides playback devices for readers who are blind or have low vision to use with braille and DAISY files at www.humanware.com. “From the moment it appeared on the market, the Victor Reader Stream has proven itself to be the greatest portable DAISY book reading device ever. Today we are proud to team up with Read How You Want. We invite all readers to take a look at the selection of books they have to offer. Reading should always be an enjoyable experience. We hope that our customers will regularly visit our new website where they will be able to check out new DAISY book releases. Pass the word around!” says HumanWare CEO Gilles Pepin.

Beginning in April, readers will be able to go to the HumanWare website to download free, first chapters of 20 bestselling ReadHowYouWant titles each month as part of the “Free Chapter Download Program.” The free, first chapters come from popular books from a variety of well-known publishers of adult and young adult books, including Wiley, Random House Australia, Murdoch Books, and Weekly Reader. The first month’s selected titles will include such best sellers as, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library), “Praise Song for the Day,” the inauguration poem by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press), and Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute (Berrett-Kohler), as well as children’s and young adult titles to include, How to Take the GRRRR Out of Anger by Marjorie Lisovskis and Elizabeth Verdick (Free Spirit Publishing), and Extreme Habitats: Mountain Survival by Susie Hodge (Weekly Reader). After enjoying the complimentary first chapter, readers may visit ReadHowYouWant’s website at www.readhowyouwant.com to purchase the entire file.

ReadHowYouWant will be demoing HumanWare’s devices at book industry events such as the Frankfurt Book Fair, the London Book Fair, and Book Expo America. Similarly, HumanWare will present braille and DAISY files from ReadHowYouWant’s collection on their players at technology industry shows, including CSUN and ATIA (Assistive Technologies Industry Association) conferences.

ReadHowYouWant produces Grade 2 contracted braille files, and has developed a house style that supports automated transcription while maintaining accuracy. These files may be read with a refreshable electronic braille display such as the Humanware Braillenote or Brailliant or embossed to make traditional braille books. Words are not split at line ends to make reading easier, particularly for newer braille readers.

About HumanWare

HumanWare is the global leader in assistive technologies for vision, including products for the blind and visually impaired. HumanWare's products include BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for blind people in education, in business and in their personal lives; the Victor Reader product line, the world's leading digital talking book players; and myReader2, the new version of HumanWare's unique "auto-reader" for people with low vision. For more information visit www.humanware.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.

ReadHowYouWant Partners with Random House Australia and Murdoch Books

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Bradi Grebien-Samkow: bradi@readhowyouwant.com

+1-503-922-0778 U.S.

Large Print and Accessible Book Publisher ReadHowYouWant Partners with Leading Publishers to Create Books for Visually Impaired Readers

Sydney, Australia, March 4, 2009—ReadHowYouWant, a new leader in large print, print-on-demand books, has begun partnering with Random House Australia and Murdoch Books to create accessible editions of their best-selling titles. ReadHowYouWant also announced the opening of their Australian and New Zealand website at www.readhowyouwant.com/australia. The Sydney-based company’s other Australian publishing partners include Simon and Schuster Australia, Michelle Anderson Publishing, Interactive Publications, Little Hare Books, and Insight Publications.

ReadHowYouWant Pty Ltd and its R&D parent company, Accessible Publishing Pty Ltd, are both Sydney, Australia-based privately held companies co-founded by electronic publishing pioneers Christopher Stephen and Greg Duncan. ReadHowYouWant’s award-winning conversion technology reformats existing books into high-quality alternative formats including, 16 to 24 point EasyRead large print, braille, e-books, and DAISY—a new talking book format that produces audio along with the written text.

Mel Cox, Head of Publishing Services at Random House Australia says, “We’re really excited to be working with ReadHowYouWant. This innovative technology assists those who have been previously unable to enjoy printed books. Random House Australia is delighted that our authors will now be available in more accessible formats for the enjoyment of all readers.” Random House Australia is part of the Random House Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. ReadHowYouWant will be working with Random House Australia on creating accessible formats of their recent front list titles, including three best-selling memoirs, Holy Cow, Salvation Creek, and Conviction of the Innocent.

ReadHowYouWant will be working with Murdoch Book’s imprint, Pier 9, which publishes an eclectic mix of travel, memoir, biography, popular history, and strong human-interest stories. "Murdoch Books is delighted to be able to make their books accessible to a broader range of people who would have previously been unable to read these titles in a standard format,” says Juliet Rogers, CEO of Murdoch Books.

ReadHowYouWant works with print-on-demand printer SOS print + media of Alexandria, NSW to print and ship books to readers. As well, ReadHowYouWant is working with James Bennett—Australia’s leading library supplier—to bring books to libraries in Australia and New Zealand.

In 2007, using an export grant from the Australian government to partly fund its expansion, ReadHowYouWant brought its services to the United States, and has begun partnering with such U.S. publishers as Wiley, Career Press, Barrett-Koehler, Free Spirit, and Rosen. Some best-selling titles from American publishers now available to Australian readers include, Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle, 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 online bookshop contains over 2,000 titles available in DAISY or braille files at www.readhowyouwant.com/australia.

“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,” says ReadHowYouWant’s founder Christopher Stephen. For more information visit www.readhowyouwant.com/australia. To reach Mark Tanner, Publisher Relations Manager in our Sydney office, email mtanner@readhowyouwant.com or call +61 421 544 707.

“…the prescient folks at ReadHowYouWant [who] offer unabridged editions and [who] have a fine understanding of the fact that one size doesn’t fit all visually impaired readers. Brilliantly, they offer a variety of fonts and font sizes.”

—Sarah F. Gold, Publishers Weekly