We receive numerous requests from churches, schools, religious communities, small groups, and individuals to duplicate materials from books for educational purposes as well as for liturgical use. Often these requests are made because purchasing the entire book is not practical and/or appropriate.

If the material is to be included in another book to be published and sold, please see our Domestic and Foreign Rights section below.

If you are using a poem or prayer text, or if the amount of text is greater than 250 words, please contact us for permission.

If you are duplicating material for private and limited circulation, and not for sale, and if the amount of prose text you wish to use is less than 250 words, you may do so without written permission. The following acknowledgment should appear somewhere on the reproduced material. The information you need is found on the copyright page of the book.

Excerpted from (book title) by (author). Copyright (date) by Ave Maria Press, P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Used with permission of the publisher.

We wish to accommodate duplication requests and are using the minimal fee established by the Copyright Clearance Center. We believe that religious book publishing is a ministry, but we must also face the realities of providing a fair royalty to the authors who have created these materials, as well as recovering our sizeable investment and meeting the ongoing costs of doing business.

Please contact us via U.S. Mail at:

Permissions Department
Ave Maria Press
P.O. Box 428
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Or via e-mail.

If one of the three shipping methods:  Air, Standard Ground, or Economy does not meet your needs, please contact Customer Service by phone at 1-800-282-1865.

Domestic Rights

If you wish to reproduce portions of an Ave Maria Press book for publication, please provide us with the following information as applicable:

Concerning the Ave Maria Press book:

Title
Author
Amount of text to be used

Concerning the book you wish to publish:

Title
Author
Amount of text to be used
Concerning the book you wish to publish:
Title
Author
Publisher
Length of the book
Number of copies to be printed
Projected retail selling price
Rights requested

Please contact us with this information by U.S. Mail at:

Permissions Department
Ave Maria Press
P.O. Box 428
Notre Dame, IN 46556
U.S.A.

Or by e-mail: girving@nd.edu

Foreign Rights

If you wish to publish an edition of an Ave Maria Press book in English or another language, please contact us indicating what rights you seek and any other details of your publishing plan

Contact us by U.S. Mail at:

Foreign Rights
Ave Maria Press
P.O. Box 428
Notre Dame, IN 46556
U.S.A.

Or by e-mail: skelly1@nd.edu

Yes.
It is based on the total dollar value of the order (with exceptions listed below):

Up to $99.99:	No Discount
$100.00 to $199.99:	10%
$200.00 to $299.99:	15%
$300.00 or more:	20%

*When calculating your discount, please DO NOT include purchases of videos, audiobooks, Adult Faith Formation Strategies, The STEP Program, Jesus, the Christ, Jesus, the Way, The Rite of Marriage, and The Funeral Rite.

RETURN POLICY

The following guidelines will help Ave Maria Press, Inc. (AMP) expedite your return and issue any credit due to you.

• No returns will be accepted prior to 90 days after the invoice date.
• No returns will be accepted for titles returned 6 months after having been declared out-of-print (you may view a complete list of our out-of-print titles), or for titles originally sold on a nonreturnable basis.
• Returns without proper documentation--either a copy of the original invoice or a completed RMA form (see below)--will be credited at a 50 percent discount.
• No returns will be accepted if the titles contain stickers or other residue; have bent, torn, or cut covers or pages; and/or have dirty, scuffed, scratched, faded covers or pages.
• Returns must be packed securely to prevent damage, and they must be shipped back to AMP via USPS, UPS or FedEx. All shipping charges are nonrefundable.

Any item returned to AMP not meeting the above conditions will not receive credit and will not be returned to you.

To ensure prompt and accurate credit for your return, please include a copy of the original invoice or establish a return merchandise authorization (RMA) by:

• Filling out the RMA Form (located on our website at the link described below) and enclosing it in your return shipment, or
• Calling our Customer Service department at 1-800-282-1865 ext 1, or
• Faxing the RMA Form to our Customer Service department at 1-800-282-5681

< Click here to download RMA Form >

You need to provide your customer number and invoice number for the RMA.

To change the quantity of an item in your shopping cart, highlight the number "1" in the quantity box. Then type in the desired quantity and click on the word "update" located next to the box. You must update the change in quantity before you continue shopping or checkout; otherwise the change will not take effect.

Click on request a catalog and we will send you our most current catalog.

Thank you for your interest in Ave Maria Press. We are a Catholic book publisher serving the spiritual and educational needs of individuals, groups, and the church as a whole. While many of our books address a wide ecumenical readership, our primary interest is in books for Catholics and Catholic institutions.

There are a number of areas in which we do not accept unsolicited manuscripts: fiction (for adults, teens, or children), poetry, biography, autobiography, and accounts of personal conversion or private revelation. Nor do we publish college-level texts or scholarly works. If your manuscript falls in one of these categories, we advise you to seek a publisher active in your area of interest.

While we receive hundreds of manuscripts annually, only three or four are selected for publication. If you wish to submit a proposal that you think is appropriate to our interest, please do so. We ask that you send the following:

1) A query letter that explains what your book is about, your intended audience, what sets it apart from other books currently available on the subject, how long the book is, and what your qualifications are for writing the book. Please also let us know if you are submitting your manuscript simultaneously to another publisher.

2) A prospectus, table of contents, an introduction, and one or two sample chapters. Or you may elect to send your entire manuscript. All manuscripts should be typed or printed out, double-spaced, on one side of the paper. Please, do not send a copy on computer disk.

3) Due to ever-changing postal regulations, it is our policy to not return any unsolicited manuscript. Please keep a copy for yourself.

Please send your submission to:

Acquistions
Ave Maria Press
P.O. Box 428
Notre Dame, Indiana?46556

We will try to respond to you within six to eight weeks, though sometime it takes longer. Understand that manuscripts require as long as several months, particularly if we are heavily backlogged or if we ask for an outside reader's opinion. There is no fee for evaluating your manuscript. However, time constraints do not permit us to offer detailed evaluations.

We will not accept or respond to queries, proposals, or manuscripts sent by e-mail or fax. We also ask that authors refrain from telephone inquiries, and trust that we will respond to your written proposals.

Ave Maria Press is exempt from collecting sales tax.

If you need to change or cancel your order please contact Customer Service at avemariapress.1@nd.edu within the next business day of placing your order. After the next business day your order will have been shipped as placed.

To delete an item from your shopping cart, enter 0 as the quantity and click the update link. You must update the change in quantity before you continue shopping or checkout; otherwise the change will not take effect.

Go to the top of the Ave Maria Press homepage and locate the "LOGIN" link. Log in using the email address and password you originally setting up your account. Once again go to the top of the homepage and click on the link "MY ACCOUNT". This is the area you can change your account information.

After making your changes, click on the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page. This will then take you to a page showing your updated Account information. An email will be sent to you stating "Ave Maria Press User Account Updated" in the subject line. Click "Continue" and you will then be returned to the Ave Maria Press homepage.

We offer billing terms for established accounts. Enter your customer account number and password at our homepage to place an order without prepayment. New users need to contact Customer Service by phone, fax or e-mail to create an account and password.

Phone	800-282-1865
Fax	800-282-5681
E-mail	avemariapress.1@nd.edu

Yes, your personal information will be encrypted before it is transmitted over the Internet. (Please take note of the change from http:// to https:// in the URL as you enter data on a secure page.) This change means that data cannot be read as it travels through the internet to our system.

First time visitors to the web site are asked to register or "log-in" before placing an order. Once you have completed the information on the "Create an Account" form and click on "continue" you will receive an e-mail acknowledgment from Ave Maria Press with the subject line, "Ave Maria Press User Registration". This e-mail from us does not mean your order was received, only that you now have an online account with us.

If you were in the middle of placing an order and were asked to "log-in" and create an account, you need to go back to the "Shopping Cart" (located at the top of the page.) Click the "Check Out " button towards the bottom of the shopping cart. You will then see a page with your "Bill to" and "Ship to" information plus all the items in your cart. Pick your shipping method. Then click the button to "Place Order". Print the next page for your records. If the order did go through, another e-mail will be sent to you with the subject line "Ave Maria Press Store Order W-(with a six digit number)". This is the acknowledgment that Ave Maria Press received your order.

Note: If you are using AOL, Comcast or RR.com to access the internet, your acknowledgment email could be viewed as spam and blocked by your provider. Please add avemariapress.com to your list of allowed sites.

A keycode appears on a catalog or flyer near your name and address and is used to track promotions and interest and may entitle you to discount special pricing or other offers. Data collected from these codes assist us in planning future promotions. (When entering a keycode, keep in mind that 0 = zero and that 1 = one.)

If you are not currently receiving our catalogs or flyers and do not have a keycode you may leave this field blank and proceed with your order.

We accept Discover, Master Card and Visa.

Ave Maria Press recommends using Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. To download this browser, please go here.

Orders received by our Customer Service Department during regular business hours, which are Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST, typically ship the next business day.

When placing orders after regular Business hours and holidays, please allow (1 to 2) additional business days for processing. Please take this information into account when choosing the following shipping methods:

Economy: delivers in 7 to 14 business days

Standard Ground: delivers in 3 to 5 business days

Air: delivers in 2 to 3 business days

If these shipping methods do not meet your needs please contact Customer Service by phone at 1- 800-282-1865.

We welcome your comments and questions, please contact us at avemariapress.1@nd.edu or you may reach us by phone 1-800-282-1865 during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.