Write, call or use the form
Tell us how many readers and when you meet. The quote comes back by email.
This is where book club reading packs, large print classic novels and custom sets start. It is also where you ask whether we have a book, or tell us we got a line wrong. One form, one inbox, one person reading it. Reading on the site stays free; everything we print is quoted on request.
The inquiry form
Send an inquiry
Pick what it is about. For a pack, the book, the number of readers and your meeting date matter more than anything else. Eight readers meeting in three weeks is a different job from forty students in a term.
After you press send
From your message to a pack on the table, in four steps.
We read it and ask what is missing
Usually one question: printed or digital, or which type size for large print. If the book is not in our catalogue we say so in the first reply rather than stringing you along.
A written quote by email
In US dollars, per group size and format, with a delivery date. It is an estimate until you answer yes. Nothing on this site is a binding price.
You confirm, and we set the pack
The typesetter builds it from the same proofed text you can read online, with chapter markers and, for groups, a reading schedule.
Delivery, then the guarantee
If a printed copy arrives damaged or carries our error, tell us within 30 days. The terms are on the guarantee page.
Worth knowing first
Do I need a pack to read with my group?
No. Every book in the catalogue is free to read online, chapter by chapter. Packs are for groups who want print, large type, or a schedule and discussion notes set out for them.
Can you add a book we want?
Only if it is in the US public domain, which today means published before 1930. We add about one title a month after a full proofing pass, so a request is a vote, not an order. Modern copyrighted novels we will not host.
Who is this not for?
Anyone after an abridged or modernised text. Austen's spellings stay as she printed them and slow chapters stay slow. If your class needs a simplified reader, we are the wrong people.
What classic books for book clubs do groups ask for most?
Short ones for a first meeting. Dubliners splits cleanly into fifteen stories and The Great Gatsby runs to nine chapters. See the reading-groups page for what goes in a pack.