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.

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.

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.

Pre-ALA Specials

I just announced our pre-ALA specials. You can view them here.

We will have entirely different specials for the conference and the month following

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

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

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New York, NY 10016 


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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.

ReadHowYouWant's new catalog for libraries

We have just released a new catalog of our in-copyright titles as a printable PDF file that can be downloaded from our web site. The new catalog includes cover images of the books and hundreds of more titles than our last catalog had. At over 200 pp, it shows how quickly ReadHowYouWant is growing.

Click here to view it, now.

ASCLA InterFace Pre- ALA 2009 Edition Banner Ad Special Offer

We are offering several special 40% discount promotions to encourage libraries to try our books before ALA. You can also order any of our books through Baker & Taylor or other wholesalers at your negotiated discount. All of these are good through the end of June, except for the FLA health book promotion, which is good through the end of May. We will have entirely new specials for the ALA conference and the month following.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and Creating Affluence by Deepak Chopra will soon be available in large print, braille, and DAISY from RHYW. With over 2 million copies sold, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year. Publisher New World Library has previously partnered with RHYW on such titles as The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. (click here to see all titles available from New World Library)

Random House Australia has recently partnered with RHYW to create accessible editions of the following best-selling memoirs: Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan won the 2007 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award, which is part of the Nita B Kibble awards for women writers. It is a story of loss, survival, and finding paradise. Making the Cut: A Surgeon’s Stories of Life on the Edge, by former professor of surgery Mohamed Khadra, documents the damaging politics in the Australian healthcare system as well as featuring stories about his training and career as a surgeon. (click here to see all titles available from Random House Australia)

As a way to celebrate these great books, all titles from New World Library and Random House Australia will be available at a 40% discount through June. Please contact me to place your orders.

Interactive Publications is another outstanding Australian publisher. The Herald Sun said of Another, “…in a word, compelling.” Joel Deane’s novel follows teenagers Toby and Suzie through their aimless wanderings, ghosts of the past, and violences with “unflinching and gritty realism and a sophisticated lyric beauty,” according to Charles Wilmoth of Intersection for the Arts. Easter at Tobruk by Michael O’Sullivan explores the changing values in Australia since WWII by focusing on two Easters, one in 1941, and another 50 years later. The novel combines historically accurate details about battles with fictitious characters. The Judges for the IP Picks Best Fiction Award 2006 called it, “An enticing work peppered with a glistening sense of magic realism…”

To support Interactive Publications’ goal of reaching new audiences, RHYW is offering their accessible additions at 40% off through the end of June. Contact me to place your orders. All Interactive titles available from RHYW may be viewed at here.

The Florida Library Association Conference special is going on through the end of May. Any library can take advantage of this special offer. These health-related books will be popular with all health-conscious seniors. Order any single title, or combinations of titles from our discount order form, and get 40% off. Click this link for details.

To place your order or for more information, please contact pstafford (at) readhowyouwant.com or call toll-free (US only) 866.428.5344 or Skype peytonstafford.

Texas Here We Come

We will be exhibiting with Combined Book at the TLA show in Houston. Please all me at 866.428.5344 if you want to make an appointment to meet during the conference.

We are offering a 40% discount on some of our top titles during and after TLA. The order form is here. You do not need to attend the conference to take advantage of the prices.

We will also be raffling off some nice selections of books in our booth, #1803.

I hope to see you, there!

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

ASCLA Interface Stillness Speaks Banner Post (revised July 7, 2009)

Looking for the ReadHowYouWant special offers for ALA 2009?

Click here, and please ignore the out of date information below.

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Welcome, ASCLA InterFace subscribers! We are offering a selection of titles to you at a 40% discount. These include bestselling and important new titles, such as:



Stillness Speaks: Tolle, Eckhart, "This book, of course,
uses words which in the act of reading become thoughts
in your mind. But those are not ordinary thoughts -
repetitive, noisy, self-serving, clamoring for attention....
The thoughts within this book don't say, 'Look at me,' but
'Look beyond me.' Because the thoughts came out of
stillness, they have power - the power to take you back
into the same stillness from which they arose. That stillness
is also inner peace, and that stillness and peace is the
essence of your Being. It is the stillness that will save and
transform the world." -- From the Introduction by Eckhart
Tolle

Praise Song For The Day: (A Poem For Barack
Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 20,
2010), Alexander, Elizabeth, "Praise song for struggle,
praise song for the day." READ BY THE POET AT THE
INAUGURATION OF Barack Obama

The Anatomy of PEACE: (Resolving The Heart of
Conflict) by The Arbinger Institute. Arbinger's materials
educate people about the problem of self-deception, and
Arbinger's methodologies help people to overcome it. In
the words of an early reviewer of The Anatomy of Peace,
"Arbinger helps people to see in a different way-to see
problems differently, conflicts differently, challenges
differently, opportunities differently, each other
differently." To which another added, "I know of no tool
or way of thinking that contributes so masterfully to real,
lasting peace-in families, organizations, communities, and
nations."

There are also some practical books, such as:

How to Administer and Estate, Living with Alzheimer's and Something to Live for: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life.

Please click here for the complete list with discounts calculated for you.

Post-Midwinter Accessible Librarian--Praise Song for the Day in LP, Braille and DAISY

Midwinter Conference Report and Raffle Winners

We had a busy Midwinter Conference and were happy to meet librarians from across the country – everywhere from NYC to Fort Myers to Los Angeles. Over 1100 librarians had downloaded our free accessible editions of the Conference Guide via the ALA web site prior to the show, and many visited our booth to thank us for this service. If you missed getting your accessible edition of the conference program, you can still download from

http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/home.cfm


We raffled off three groups of our bestselling books: the top 10, the top 15 and the top 25. These top titles include Leadership and Self-Deception, Stillness Speaks and The Anatomy of Peace. They are all strong sellers in adult nonfiction. Look at our blog for a complete list. It's at

http://theaccessiblelibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/01/midwinter-2009-discounts-and-special.html


These titles are still on special at 40% discount through March 1, so don't miss ordering them for your library!

Third place winner, with the top 10 was Sue Sherif, of the Alaska State Library. Second place winner, with the top 15, was Shelley Ekeroth of the County of Los Angeles Public Library. First place winner was Dr. Teri Maggio, of Assumption Parish Library, in Napoleonville, LA. We will be shipping the books to the winners, shortly. Congratulations to all three! We are sure your patrons will enjoy these additions to your collections.

Braille and DAISY Shop Open with Praise Song
In celebration of Louis Braille’s 200th birthday, ReadHowYouWant has opened the doors to our online braille and DAISY bookshop at www.readhowyouwant.com/braille.

Blind readers now have access to thousands of titles in braille, including bestsellers: Praise Song for the Day, the poem created for and read at Barack Obama’s inauguration by poet Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press), The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library), Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press), and Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Dummies by Patricia Barry (Wiley). Children and young adults can find popular titles including, How to Take the GRRRR Out of Anger by Marjorie Lisovskis and Elizabeth Verdick (Free Spirit Publishing), Scratch Kitten Goes to Sea by Jessica Green (Little Hare), Extreme Habitats: Desert Survival by Jim Pipe (Weekly Reader), and A Doctor’s Busy Day by Nicole Boyd (Rosen Publishing). A large selection of literary classic titles is also available.

Through special arrangement with our new publisher partner, Graywolf Press, we are offering the Inauguration Poem, Praise Song for the Day, by Elizabeth Alexander, FREE in the braille and DAISY editions as well as allowing free downloads of printable PDF files. Libraries may purchase large print copies of the book at a 40% discount through the end of March. Click the link above for more information.

New Publishing Partners
RHYW is pleased to announce three new US publishing partners. The Mountaineers Books in Seattle, the nonprofit press established by the nearly 100-year-old Mountaineers Club. Today, with more than 500 titles in print, The Mountaineers Books is a leading publisher of quality outdoor books, including many award winners. Basic Health Publications in Laguna Beach, California, is the publisher of quality health titles including the bestselling, Healing Without Medication, and The Official Anti-Aging Revolution. The Permanent Press is committed to publishing works of social and literary merit, and their authors and titles have gained over 50 literary honors, including the American Book Award, Small Press Book Awards, and New American Writing Awards.


Publisher Profile: Parallax Press
RHYW spoke with Travis Masch, publisher of Parallax Press in Berkeley, California, Parallax is best known as the core publisher of Vietnamese Zen teacher and poet, Thich Nhat Hanh, whose book Being Peace has sold over 250,000 copies and has been translated into 12 languages. “As part of our mission we are committed to making our books accessible to everyone and preserving them for future generations,” says Masch. The full interview is here

http://www.readhowyouwant.com/pages_about/news.aspx?id=43

Save 40% on Large Print Bestsellers
We are continuing our Midwinter Conference special. All you have to do is order 10 or more books from among our top 25 bestsellers to get a 40% discount. If you order fewer than 10 of these, we will still double your normal discount so that you will get 20% off on this order.

These are new nonfiction bestsellers in large print. You cannot go wrong with them. Click this link for the complete list:

http://theaccessiblelibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/01/midwinter-2009-discounts-and-special.html


Thank you, again, for your interest in our work on behalf of visually impaired readers. Please feel free to contact me, personally, if I may be of any service.

ALA Midwinter 2009 Conference Guide in Large Print, Braille and DAISY Editions for Download

ReadHowYouWant has just released accessible editions of the Conference Guide as PDF downloads from ALA. There are six different font sizes in printable PDF format, plus a braille (BRF) file and a digital talking book (DAISY) file. Click here to view and download them.