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.

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.

New Marketing Agreement with ECPA

ECPA Enters Marketing Agreement with Read How You Want
Alternative Format Printing Opens New Market for Member Publishers

PHOENIX, AZ -- February 6, 2009 – Millions of people are not able to read their favorite books due to limited eyesight, medical conditions or learning disabilities. As the population ages, more and more people will be unable to read the text of the average book. The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announces an agreement with Read How You Want (RHYW), a pioneering electronic publishing company based in Sydney, Australia. This agreement offers member publishers a chance to license their books in emerging and print-on demand formats for various reading needs.

Read How You Want provides customized book printing solutions in niche formats. RHYW takes the existing print-ready PDF version of any book and converts it to a wide variety of formats including DAISY text plus synchronized voice file, electronic Braille, EasyRead Large and Super Large print (for print on demand, customized books), as well as Kindle and other e-book formats. "RHYW " partners with publishers and converts their titles to standard e-book formats at very competetive rates. As part of that service they convert the titles to accessible formats for free, market the titles through their channels and provide a 50/50 net revenue stream to their publishing partners. For publishers not interested in e-book conversion services, RHYW will convert any book from PDF to the accessible formats at no charge, with an agreement to market and sell those formats for the publisher.

Especially for ECPA members, RHYW will create a separate page on its direct-to-consumer website dedicated to Christian titles. RHYW has a long-standing relationship with Amazon and will be able to increase the presence of these formats on this popular website.

“Read How You Want is reaching a growing market segment,” says Michael Covington, Information & Education Director for ECPA. “This new agreement means that an ECPA publisher can bring their books to this new market immediately at no additional cost. It’s a win for the consumer and the publisher.” For more information this incredible opportunity, visit RHYW’s website at http://www.readhowyouwant.com/pages_about/publishers.aspx

Read How You Want founder Christopher Stephen started the company in 2005 after working closely with his sister who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “It was heartbreaking to see her lose her ability to read because of her problems with eye tracking,” says Stephen. “We want to serve her and the millions like her around the world, providing quality books with life-changing and encouraging messages.”

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) is an international non-profit trade organization, comprised of nearly 200 member companies worldwide, representing a combined revenue of nearly $2 billion. Founded in 1974, ECPA is dedicated to serving the Christian publishing industry through equipping its members through cutting-edge technology, meaningful data, dynamic educational opportunity and unprecedented access to markets.