For Libraries

Order 3+ books and receive a 20% discount

As a Fair Trade Publisher, Ancient Tower Press encourages readers to support their local libraries.  Libraries have long been a tremendously valuable community resource – a meeting place where avid readers and books capable of feeding human curiosity, imagination, and need for practical information come together in an ongoing celebration of the written word.

Since the advent of the digital age, libraries have in addition become multimedia centers, providing computer access, music, film, and audio books, as well as old-fashioned print resources.

Ancient Tower Press wants to encourage this free-flowing exchange of information, and in turn to encourage libraries to support more actively the authors and small publishers who enrich their collections with the spice of new ideas and brave experiments in pushing the envelope of our collective knowledge.

We understand the convenience of one-stop shopping that drives libraries to form relationships with large wholesalers, and digital library projects promising easy access to everything in print.  Such services, however, often effectively leave the author and the publisher with the smallest piece of the pie – a pie that would not exist were it not for them.  In some cases, digital library projects may even infringe on existing copyright laws.  Large corporations often do this, because they know that most authors and small publishers do not have the resources to secure their rights against their own bottomless pockets.

For these reasons, we would like to encourage all libraries instead to consider ordering their books directly from the publisher, wherever possible.  It takes a little more effort, perhaps, but at the end of the day, you will feel better about lending an extra level of support to those whose creative efforts are the lifeblood of the collection you offer to your patrons.

Ancient Tower Press is happy to make its books available to any library willing to honor the right of Ancient Tower Press to retain all digital rights to its work.  We have opted out of the Google Library Project, for example, and the settlement of their current lawsuit with the Author’s Guild, granting them the right to digitize any book in print.  So we would ask you, in turn, not to scan our books or make them available to your patrons in digital form, without express permission from Ancient Tower Press.  If you are willing to sign such an agreement, then the following terms will apply:

Single book orders will be at regular retail prices.

For orders of 3 or more books, Ancient Tower Press will offer any library a 20% discount.

Library orders can be composed of more than one book in the Ancient Tower Press catalog – e.g. 1 copy each of The Seven Gates of Soul, Tracking the Soul, and The Archetypal Power Of Number, ordered at the same time, constitute a library order of 3 books.

Before submitting your order, you must download ATPs Digital Library Agreement and return it to:

Ancient Tower Press
230 W 1st St #119
Mountain View, MO 65548

Upon receipt of your agreement, ATP will contact you by email, and you may then complete your order online.

Payment for library orders must be made in advance by Paypal through the publisher’s account at [email protected].  Email first with your order and ATP will send you an invoice, payable upon placement of the order.  Please include the invoice number with your Paypal payment.

Alternately payment can be made by check to the address above.

Once a business arrangement is established between Ancient Tower Press through 3 or more library purchases, terms can be arranged – generally for not more than 30 days, and always contingent on timely payment of the first invoice (included in the shipment).

ATP will pay shipping on all library orders;
  you will pay shipping on any order of less than 3 books

ATP does not accept returns

Libraries who agree to these terms and establish a business relationship with Ancient Tower Press will be listed in this weblog as Fair Trade Libraries.  ATP will gladly promote all Fair Trade Libraries to readers.