Harvard Ranch Publishing may be the best feel-good project yet. We developed HRP to create hard-cover, museum quality books with extremely large print to reach low-vision and those suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. The books have reached people all over the world in their homes and in assisted care facilities. We sell them primarily through our web site as well as Amazon, though we are extremely interested in expanding retail distribution. Just when this project was getting off the ground we had kids and moved to Colorado, though we are currently pushing this project forward again —and very excited with our new books which will be out in the next year. Aesthetically, and functionally the books were a challenge: Publishers did not understand the category, nor our desire for institutionally-strong, yet beautiful production. In short they did not understand why we wanted to spend so much in bindery. But, everything came together in a very clean and simple way with a last minute cash infusion from a very wonderful person. 
The way these books have impacted people has been very moving, and personally, I had the opportunity to photograph stained glass in churches all over Western Montana. 
In many cases this allowed me to meet people from a myriad of faiths in environments so peaceful and prone to philosophical discussion that the film I walked out with will forever be imprinted with that period in my life. www.harvardranch.comHarvard Ranch Publishing - Large Print Books, Gifts for the Elderly, Gifts for Seniors and Gifts for Alzheimer's Patients
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I love this! It seems like more publishers like your 'Harvard Ranch' project are beginning to understand our need for very large print. I've been getting some very large font books from ReadHowYouWant, a small publisher I discovered at a great amazon book search site - Evjoy Large Print.
Wonderful work, Laura & Billy.
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