Reading Partners

Reading Partners, the national consortium of libraries and publishers led by The Reading Agency began as a pilot with five publishers and now involves 34 including:

Alison and Busby

Alma Books                           

Bloomsbury                           

Canongate

Constable and Robinson       

Earthscan

Faber                                    

Glasshouse Books

Granta Books                        

HarperCollins

Harlequin Mills & Boon           

Haus Publishing

Hodder/Headline                    

Icon Books

Little Brown                            

Orion

Palgrave Macmillan

Pan Macmillan                   

Penguin

Picnic Publishing                    

Quaestor 2000 Ltd              

Random House                      

The Book Guild Ltd

Reading Partners is now celebrating 7 years of outstanding achievements and a report telling the story so far can be seen on The Reading Agency website.

The strategy until 2013 focuses on 6 strands:

• Community
• Diversity
• Breaking new talent
• Digital content and marketing
• Workforce development
• Partnerships

Reading Partners continues to bring established and new writers to the region and to support public libraries work around buidling new audiences for books and reading.

Lynn Hodgkins, LIEM's Regional Librarian represents the East Midlands on Reading Partners