ReadHowYouWant July 2011 Newsletter

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

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. Back to top 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. Back to top 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. Back to top

ReadHowYouWant April 2011 Newsletter

April 2011 Inside this Issue 1. Congrats to The Happiest Refugee! 2. New Publisher Partners 3. Publishers Weekly's "Large As Life" 4. An Update from The London Book Fair 5. RHYW at BEA Follow Us FaceBook Twitter

The Happiest Refugee Wins 2011 Indie Award Australian comedian Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee (Allen & Unwin) is theOverall Winner of the Indie Book of the Year Award 2011! The book also won in the Nonfiction category, and is the first nonfiction title to take the Overall Award. The awards were presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in front of a large group of Australian Independent booksellers. Back to top New Publisher Partners More Australian publishers have joined the list of RHYW publisher partners! Welcome to Whittaker Macnaught the publisher of Noel Whittaker's books, including Making Money Made Simple and Golden Rules of Wealth.Woodslane began trading in 1989, growing from humble beginnings to emerge as a leader in technology, business, and lifestyle publishing and distribution in Australasia. Penguin Books New Zealand has also joined the growing list of New Zealand publishers with award-winning authors such as Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip) and Maurice Gee (Access Road)! Back to top Publishers Weekly Features Large Print Books, and RHYW! "Large as Life: Large Print Publishing in 2011," appeared in the April 4 issue of Publishers Weekly. Numerous large print publishers and librarians are interviewed, and the article examines the effect of ebooks on large print sales, as well as the use of large print in libraries. New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center Librarian Elizabeth Burns states, "Large print is very popular with children and teens who have low vision or dyslexia...It can be harder to find at local public libraries than adult large print, because many people think large print is for older folks...not realizing that children and teens need it, also." To learn more about the large print market, and specifically how RHYW fits into it, click here . Back to top Notes from the London Book Fair RHYW had a great LBF establishing agreements and plans with U.K. publisher partners, and U.K. library distributors and online retailers. The response has been universally positive and we look forward to announcing more news as details are finalized. If you'd like to contact our Publisher Representative for the U.K. and Europe, please email Alex.Mitchell@readhowyouwant.com. Back to top Visit RHYW at BEA RHYW will be attending Book Expo America May 24-26 in New York. General Manager Jon Attenborough and Publisher Representative Bradi Grebien-Samkow will be available for meetings at booth #4229. Please emailbradi@readhowyouwant.com to schedule a meeting. Back to top

September Hot List

ReadHowYouWant has begun a new promotional program. Each month, we will select new large print titles that either have sold extremely well in their trade editions or that we feel have good potential for high circulation in libraries. We will offer these titles at a special 40% discount to libraries if they order directly from us. They can also order these books through B&T, Brodart and Ingram at their negotiated discounts with these wholesalers.

Here is a link to our first Hot List.

Some of the top titles are Excuses Begone!, Dr. Wayne Dyer's newest book and a NYT bestseller, Investing For Dummies® from John Wiley, and Relative Danger by Charles Benoit.

ReadHowYouWant titles available through Ingram

We now have select titles available through Ingram in the 16 pt font size. You can order larger sizes direct from us or through B&T.

Here are the titles in the first batch. More are coming, soon.!

Title
100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
151 Quick Ideas to Manage Your Time
Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given At The Maryland Correctional Institute
Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Buddha Mind, Buddha Body
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Creating Affluence: The A-To-Z Steps to a Richer Life
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens
Finding God in the Shack: Seeking Truth in a Story of Evil and Redemption
Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All
Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity
How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization: From Writing And Managing Grants To Fundraising, Board Development, And Strategic Planning
How to Spot a Liar: Why People Don't Tell The Truth ... And How You Can Catch Them
Into the Light: Real Life Stories About Angelic Visits, Visions of the Afterlife, and Other Pre-Death Experiences
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
Leadership From the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life
Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts For Getting Out of Your Mind And Into The Moment
Love 'em Or Lose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay
Meditation For Beginners
Meditation in a New York Minute: Super Calm For The Super Busy
Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, And Exercises From the Power of Now
PRESENT MOMENT WONDERFUL MOMENT: Mindfulness Verses For Daily Living
Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be
Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide
Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life
Stillness Speaks
Sunshine and Vitamin D : A Comprehensive Guide to the Benefits of the ''Sunshine Vitamin"
Teachings on Love
Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Acid Reflux: Nutrition You Can Live With
Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Diabetes
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance
The End of Your World: uncensored Straight Talk on The Nature of Enlightenment
The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work
The Self-Hypnosis Diet: Use the Power of Your Mind to Reach Your Perfect Weight
The Story of You: (And How To Create A New One)
THE WAY OF THE SUPERIOR MAN: A Spiritual Guide To Mastering The Challenges of Women, Work, And Sexual Desire
Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness
Understanding Our Mind
Walking Meditation
Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling
Winning Job Interviews: Reduce Interview Anxiety; Outprepare The Other Candidates; Land The Job You Love

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.

Prepub Special: 50% off on Relative Danger

NEW MYSTERIES from POISONED PEN PRESS

Relative Danger

Poisoned Pen Press Bestseller

EasyRead™ Large Print (16pt Font)

Charles Benoit

#1 of 150 Poisoned Pen Press Large Print Mysteries coming soon!

“Benoit’s smashingly good, action-packed first novel…contrasts the modern features of North Africa and Asia with the remnants of their ancient pasts. Two murderous chases through urban and rural Egypt build to a resolution that remains well concealed until the final pages…”

—Publishers Weekly

“Where has Benoit been hiding? With a debut novel this good, it's hard to believe he hasn't published at least 10 previous books. Every element of this rollicking adventure shines, from its suspenseful, globetrotting plot to its nicely rounded characters...” ­­— Booklist

Price: TBD	ISBN: TBD	Release Date: August 2009
Trim Size: 10.0”x7.8” paperback	Pages: TBD	Subject: Mystery
Originally published by Poisoned Pen Press, 2004	Available direct or through Baker & Taylor, Ingram and Brodart.	50% discount on prepub direct orders through 8/1/09, also available on personal orders from librarians and booksellers.

Click here for ordering details.

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

Florida Library Association Conference Special

We are offering a 40% discount on a selection of health-related large print books as part of our Florida Library Association exhibit. You do not need to attend the conference in order to use this discount. The special prices are in effect now and are good through the end of May.

Don't forget to visit us if you will be in Orlando for the Florida Library Association, May 6-8, 2009. We will be in Booth 513 and will be raffling off 50 of our books!

Click here for the complete list with special discounted prices.

Here are some of the titles we are featuring. Click on the titles for more information.

	A Whole Foods Primer by BEATRICE TRUM HUNTER

Beatrice Trum Hunter has written numerous books on food issues, including Consumer Beware: Your Food Whats Been Done to It (Simon Schuster, 1971), The Mirage of Safety: Food Additives Federal Policy (Charles Scribners Sons, 1975), The Great Nutrition Robbery (Charles Scribners Sons, 1978), The Sugar Trap How to Avoid It (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), and Food Your Health (Basic Health Publications, 2003). As food editor for more than twenty years at Consumers Research Magazine, her monthly columns and feature articles brought cutting-edge issues before general recognition. Hunter has received many awards and recognitions for her work.

A Whole Foods Primer demonstrates the wisdom of selecting whole foods for optimal intake of the nutrients essential for good health. In this book, readers will learn about the basic nutritional components of each whole food group and their specific functions and beneficial roles in the body. The text presents nutrient profiles and surprising facts about some hundred whole foods, their historical uses as food and medicine, and the latest research that identifies their health-bestowing qualities.

	Bursting With Energy by FRANK SHALLENBERGER

In this updated revision of his acclaimed book, Bursting with Energy, Dr. Frank Shallenberger makes a clear connection between the amount of energy you have and the amount of aging you do, pointing out that, in medical terms, aging refers to a loss of function, not chronology. A thirty-year old with no loss of function is identical to a twenty-year-old, he says. And the same is true for fully functional people in their sixties--they are the same as thirty-year-olds. According to Shallenberger, the loss of functions that result from aging are themselves the result of energy loss: more energy, less aging; less energy, more aging. When Dr. Shallenberger discusses anti-aging methods, he is actually talking about improving energy production. His work with patients over the years has proven that an energy deficit is the root cause of every disease and symptom, from cancer, to fatigue, to obesity.

	Chinese Home Remedies by Lihua Wang

Lihua Wang began her career as a cardiologist in the China Academy of Traditional Medicine, in Bejing, China. In 1982, she was invited by Kaiser Permenante Research Center as a visiting scholar and later selected by the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine to teach acupuncture and Chinese herbology to American students. She has been in private practice, specializing in traditional Chinese medicine, since 1992 in Portland, Oregon.

More than 1,000 effective remedies, a treasure trove of information you can use every day. Chinese Home Remedies is a book that offers an intriguing blend of traditional Chinese medicine - as practiced today - and a wide variety of ancient Chinese folk remedies. You'll often be surprised how easily a problem that has lingered for weeks or months can be cured! This book is a distillation of Ms. Wang's 30 years of clinical experiences as both a physician in China and an acupuncturist and herbalist in the United States. It explains in simple-to-understand language how to treat yourself or a family member using a variety of techniques, including Chinese massage, food therapy, Chinese herbal formulas, and folk remedies that have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Did you know that apple slices can ease itching skin, hooking your middle fingers together can stop a nosebleed, or that eating peanuts can lower your blood pressure? These are only a few of the more than 1,000 effective remedies that you will find in Chinese Home Remedies. By following just a few pieces of this book's advice, you will find yourself on a healthier life path.

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 is now available through Baker and Taylor

Our books are now available for purchase through Baker and Taylor's Title Source 3. You can search by our company name, by book title, etc. Please note that longer books and books in extremely large fonts may require several volumes, so pay close attention to volume numbers in the records. If the record does not show a volume number, then there is only one volume. But if it does show a volume number, then be sure to order the other volumes of the book.

Your discount will be determined by your contract with B&T. We will continue our program of aggressive discounting to direct customers.

New publishing partner, Demos Health

Demos Medical Publishing 


DEMOS HEALTH

386 Park Avenue South 


Suite 301 
New York, NY 10016 


(212) 683-0072

www.demosmedpub.com

I am pleased to announce that ReadHowYouWant has a new Publishing Partner: Demos Medical Publishing, specifically their imprint, Demos Health.

For more than 20 years, Demos has filled a unique educational need for physicians and other health care professionals as well as for people with disabilities and their families. The company publishes world-class texts in neurology, rehabilitation medicine, growing lists in oncology, pathology, and cardiovascular medicine, and acclaimed patient books in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, stroke, spinal cord injury, and many others.

In October 2007, Demos Medical Publishing LLC. embarked on a new and exciting venture: the launch of its first health and wellness imprint, Demos Health. This imprint furthers the company’s mission of bridging the gap between consumers and the healthcare community, and help to fully distinguish between Demos’ existing professional and patient lines.

This move solidified Demos’ position among the leaders in patient health care publishing. Among the highlights in the Demos Health program are 101 Accessible Vacations: Travel Ideas for Wheelers and Slow Walkers, Mental Sharpening Stones: Manage the Cognitive Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis, Arthritis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier, Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease, and Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life. Demos Health will continue to publish new editions of the company’s bestselling titles on such subjects as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and epilepsy.

“We are committed to keeping the standards and quality that Demos is known for in our patient publications, while making the content and topic areas more accessible to a wider audience,” said Noreen Henson, Director of the new imprint.

As of April 8, 2009 there are 98 titles on the growing list of Demos Health books; they plan to load an initial batch of 60 titles in our system during the next few weeks. We should have them available for sale in our editions beginning in May.