We get a lot of calls at the office asking if we allow you to copy pages from your book for a whole co-op or classroom. First, I’d like to say that  we really appreciate the fact that y’all are trying to work within copyright law, and if you have questions you ASK us. That’s really encouraging. A lot of our material would probably be pretty easy to pirate if you wanted to, and it speaks well of your character that you don’t.

Here’s the gist of our permissions.

Single-Family licenses:

You can photocopy (or in the case of CDs or Downloads like Illuminations, print) anything you want for your own family. (Our Student Activity Books are included in this statement, although it’s usually less expensive to buy a second consumable workbook than to photocopy every page.)*

Co-Op licenses:

If it comes on a CD or you can download it from our website, you can purchase a Co-Op license by calling our office at (877) 492-8081. The price is 2.5 times the retail price, and can be used for up to 25 students. For example, A Young Scholar’s Guide to Composers CD retails for $29.95, so to get a Co-Op version instead would be $74.88. If you have three or more families in your co-op, this will save you money. If you have 25 students in your class, each student is only paying $3, instead of the $30 they would if they bought their own copy!

(Most families don’t need to worry about this, it’s more for mega-co-ops and private schools: if you have more then 25 students, you’ll need to purchase another license, which is good for another 25 students. If you have less then 25, you still get to use it for that many students. If you teach the same class to a different group of kids later, you can apply those unused slots at that time.)

With books, especially the readers for All American History or The Mystery of History, you can either get a license to reproduce the pages (using the same guidelines as above), or you can place a bulk order. It really depends on if you want to: (a) read selections aloud in class, or pass out a few photocopied pages for at-home reading, or (b) each student to have their own book to read at home.

If you want (b), call the office. We offer a nifty 30% discount to Co-Ops purchasing 6 or more of a title. Make sure you have one person as our contact who can give us a Visa or MasterCard for the whole order. Shipping (within the US) will probably be around 2$/book, depending on weight of the book.

I hope this has been helpful for you. We want to make sure that our products are affordable for people, which is why we keep our prices low, offer bulk or missionary discounts, and provide group licenses. (Also, if you’re interested, we often have scratch-and-dent books in stock which we sell for less. It never hurts to ask!)  We really appreciate the great attitudes of the co-op leaders we’ve talked to who make sure they’re doing the right thing when they order from us. Blessings,

-Tyler the Office Manager