Frequently Asked Questions

• I hear you're a green company.  True?  Yes.  Ninth Moon cares about our earth and what we leave behind. 

  And while we love sending out a beautiful package, we also believe in using earth-friendly materials where possible.  Ninth Moon has found packaging you can feel good about.  In other words, no Styrofoam pellets.  We scrounge for  nice products at good prices, but also believe in fair wages, good working conditions and treating people with respect.  We hope you agree.  You can feel good about a purchase from our company

• Do you provide gift wrap services?  Yes.  All of Ninth Moon's products are attractively packaged, ready to hand to a friend.  If you'd like to enclose a message, check the gift wrap option at checkout and add the To/From/Message info. No add'l charge. 
  
  
• How do you compete with the big book stores?  Even with our low overhead, the book market is too competitive for us to run nose-to-nose with mega-stores on price. . . so our banner is customer service (our books--including international reference books and small press titles--are in stock and ship fast--you'll have them in a couple of days, not weeks).  We also compete with love (sort of like that Paul Newman salad dressing, if you think about it).  We run a green company (see above), sell our books at the publishers recommended pricing--a fair price--and then donate one dollar (yes, you read that right!) from every book sold to bring children's writing programs into schools.  Our Quotes for Kids program brings real authors into the classroom to talk about writing. 



• Do you sell used books? No . . . and the gentle reason is because authors only get royalties on new books.  We'd like our favorite authors to keep writing and not working a second or third job to pay the heat bill. 
   
• I'd like to use (a quote, a photo, whatever)--may I?  Maybe, but you need to contact us first.  While a few snippets have fallen into the public domain (Churchill's "Never, Never, Never Quit" quote comes to mind)--everything else is the artistic creation of someone and protected under current copyright laws.  You need permission in writing from the artist.  We can't begin to imagine the bad karma associated with a writer stealing from another writer (although the Walla Walla State Penitentiary might provide some perfect, novel-inducing solitude, now that we think about it).  Save us all a lot of trouble.  Ask.