Payment Options
Do you accept payments via Paypal?
Yes, we do accept Paypal.
What other payment methods do you accept?
Payments can be made using Visa, Mastercard, Shop Pay, Google Pay and Apple Pay. We do not accept American Express or Discover.
Rights System
What are “rights”?
Having ‘rights’ means that you will have the first right of refusal to purchase the next title published by CTP during a pre-order window that is only available to rights-holders. Rights-holders who purchase the next published book will automatically have their number or letter matched with the previous book.
For example: if you ordered Deluxe #110 of Sea of Tranquility and you pre-order the Deluxe state of the next book published during your pre-order window, you will automatically be assigned #110 of the next book.
What’s the difference between “publisher’s rights” and “series rights”?
Series rights are the right of first refusal to order a matching copy of the next book in a series during an early, private, pre-order window. Examples are The Foundation Trilogy, our Weird. series, and our upcoming Elric series.
Publisher’s rights are rights for books that are not part of a series. For example, our most recent books that followed the publisher’s rights path were in this order: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Tigana, then Sea of Tranquility.
Will all books have rights, or will some always be available to the public?
No, not all books along our publisher’s rights track will have rights—some books will always be available to the public.
Which books have rights?
All 26 Lettered books Deluxe books numbered #1 through #200 will always have publisher’s rrights attached to them. Doing it this way ensures that copies of the Deluxe Edition are always available to collectors who did not order the previous book.
In a series (e.g. Foundation or Weird.) all Collector’s Editions, Deluxe Editions, and Lettered Editions will all have rights.
Which books do not have rights?
Deluxe books numbered #201 and above do not have rights associated with them, unless they are part of a series (e.g. Foundation and Weird.).
Collector’s Editions do not have any rights, unless they are part of a series like The Foundation Trilogy, Weird., or Elric.
Short Stops titles do not have rights.
What if you begin publishing a trilogy but the books are not all published one after the other? How would rights work there?
To allow for this, series rights grant the right of first refusal for matching copies of subsequent books in the series, regardless of how many other books are published in between.
In that case, for example, collectors with rights copies of Part 1 of a trilogy will have rights to both Part 2 of the trilogy whenever it is published. And this applies to all states of the book: Collector’s Editions, Deluxe Editions, and Lettered Editions.
I’d like to acquire publisher’s rights, how can I do this?
By either ordering a copy of a book that comes with either publisher’s or series rights directly from Conversation Tree Press, or by having rights transferred to you from someone who currently has them.
As of March 2026, both publisher’s rights and series rights can be transferred by completing the Rights Transfer form.
How do I keep my rights?
If you are a rights-holder, you retain your rights by purchasing the next available CTP book in the state that you own, during the exclusive pre-order period. If you do not purchase the next CTP book during the exclusive pre-order period, the rights for that number or letter will become available to someone else.
This applies to both publisher’s and series rights.
Are rights transferable?
Yes: publisher’s and series rights can be transferred by completing the Rights Transfer form.
I have publisher’s rights. Can I sell this book without giving up those rights?
Yes, you can sell a book to someone else and keep your publisher’s rights intact.
How do I transfer rights?
Use this form to transfer rights.
Shipping
Can my pre-ordered book be redirected to someone else?
Pre-ordered books are shipped only to the original purchaser and the address provided at checkout, unless the recipient has moved. There are no exceptions, even if rights are transferred.
Instalment Plans
Can I pay for a book using instalments?
Yes, we offer instalment plans through a third party - Partial.ly.
What is Partial.ly and how does it work?
Partial.ly is a third party that allows you to create an account and purchase our books using an instalment plan with no interest.
There is a 5% processing fee that is charged by Partial.ly and paid directly to them.
The payments are split into four equal parts, with the first paid immediately and the others over three months.
Books are not shipped until all payments are made. Partial.ly may not calculate the shipping cost accurately; in that case, shipping will be invoiced directly to the buyer.
What happens if I don’t make all the payments on an instalment plan?
If a payment does not go through, Partial.ly will try twice more to process the card stored in your Partial.ly account.
If this fails, the plan will be considered defaulted, the order cancelled and the books put back into stock on the website. Conversation Tree Press will issue a refund less the 5% Partial.ly fee and less a 10% default fee.
If a customer defaults on a payment plan, they will not be allowed to use payment plans in the future. If a new order is placed by the same customer using a payment plan, the order will be cancelled less the 5% Partial.ly fee and less a 10% fee.
Other
What are lifetime subscribers?
When the Press was starting out, a limited number of lifetime subscriptions at each tier were offered, where subscribers receive one copy of each book the Press publishes. Lifetime subscriptions are no longer available.