Caravan for Readers

Are you the sort of person who drives to work each day with National Public Radio? Do you gravitate to the programming offered through PBS or cable channels such as The History Channel, The Discovery Channel or Arts & Entertainment? If so, then we suspect you’ve got the makings of a Caravan reader.

The Caravan Project makes it possible for you to:

Listen to these books, previously unavailable in audio, read by the author or a professional reader (several of whom have NPR resumes)
Purchase only the chapter or chapters you need or want to sample from any Caravan book
Acquire every Caravan title in a large print format.
Continue supporting your local bookstore by purchasing Caravan books with the help of familiar and knowledgeable staff

The Books You Want to Read

The Caravan Project has created a partnership of publishers, booksellers and a leading wholesaler to bring you the intelligent, serious non-fiction books you value in the alternative reading formats many modern readers prefer.

Our participating publishers, distinguished small trade and university presses, bring you books in a wide range of topics: history, biography, current affairs, science, religion, politics/policy, environment, sociology, economics. And they make them available in traditional and non-traditional book formats so you can read or listen to the books you want, when you want to read or hear them, in the digital, audio or large print format you prefer.

Any Book Any Way You Want It

It’s pretty easy to find bestselling books in digital and audio formats. Large publishers with bestselling authors (think J. K. Rowling or Michael Crichton or John Grisham) have the budgets to create and market selected books in a variety of formats. Many smaller, but no less worthy, publishers of important non-fiction simply do not have these resources. The Caravan Project has made the availability of these books possible, for the first time, in e-book, audio and large print formats.

The Caravan Project is committed to changing the playing field for publishers of serious non-fiction and helping booksellers get these books into your hands. All Caravan formats are published and supported by the publishers themselves, who have overseen the quality of their content from start to finish.

You can get any Caravan book in each of these formats:

e-book Formats

All ebook formats allow you to purchase the entire book or chapters from the book. The ability to offer “granular” access to books will be of interest to students, travelers and others who want only part of a book. A by-chapter offering can be a valuable way to recommend a book without requiring the reader to purchase it immediately in its entirety.

Adobe PDF Download
Microsoft Reader Download
eReader (formerly Palm) Download

Audio Formats

Audio Download
Audio SD Chip (shipping required)
Audio CD (shipping required)

Print Format

Large Print Paperback (shipping required)

Note: If you have purchased a Caravan downloadable book and have not received the email with your authorization code and link to the Caravan Download Center, please check your Junk and/or Bulk mail folders for the email from Caravan. Mark the message "Not Junk" and it will move into your In Box. Future email from Caravan will arrive in your In Box after you take this step.

You will need to create a customer account with our digital audio provider in order to download your titles. Your personal information will not be shared or used for any purpose other than enabling your audio download.