More great news; please thank Robin for her hard work laying foundation for growing relationships with publishing partners. Valerie From: Alisa Moore <alisam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Tue, March 6, 2012 4:07:29 PM >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] FW: Red Wheel Weiser Has Signed Our Agreement > > >From:Robin Seaman >Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:57 PM >To: Bookshare Team >Subject: Red Wheel Weiser Has Signed Our Agreement > >Red Wheel/Weiser, based in Newburyport, Massachusetts and San Francisco, >California, has signed our agreement, giving us world rights to their titles >in >the areas of spirituality, metaphysics, and self-help. They publish sixty >books >a year and have an extensive backlist that they are in the process of >converting >to EPUB. They do distribution in house. > >Their imprints include Conari Press, the publisher of Random Acts of Kindness, >which has sold millions of copies (inspired by words scrawled on a restaurant >placemat, which launched the movement that promoted people being kind to one >another) and Hampton Roads, the publisher of Mark Nepo’s The Book of >Awakening, >which became a #1 New York Times bestseller last year after being championed >passionately by Oprah Winfrey. Hampton Roads is well known for its >Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch and titles by Eckhart >Tolle, Byron Katie, Richard Bach, Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and Linda >Goodman. > >http://redwheelweiser.com/ > > >Robin >_____________________________________ >Robin Seaman | Director of Content Acquisition | Bookshare, A Benetech >Initiative >480 S. California Avenue, Suite 201, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | (650) 644-3412 >www.bookshare.org| www.benetech.org > >