Rights & Permissions
When quoting material from P&R books, formal permission is needed if:
- You are quoting 300 or more words from a single book
- You are quoting more than 20 percent of a book, booklet, or pamphlet
- You are reproducing artwork, photographs, forms, charts, tables, graphs, or other visual representations
Brief quotes, simple citations of a copyrighted title, and quotations in a church bulletin do not require formal permission from us.
For all quotations, even those that do not require formal written permission, add a credit line similar to the following: “Reprinted from [title] by [author], copyright [date of copyright], P&R Publishing, Phillipsburg, NJ.”
How to request formal permission:
To request formal permission to reproduce material from a P&R publication please write to permissions@prpbooks.com and include the following information:
- Your name, email, address, and position or affiliation
- The title, author, ISBN and publisher of the book that contains the material you wish to use
- The page number(s) that contains the material
- The page number preceding the material and the page number following for contextual information
- The use for which you are requesting this material:
- Inclusion in a book or periodical. Please include:
- Title, author, and publisher of the book or periodical in which the material will appear
- Expected print run or circulation
- Expected price of the book
- Expected release date
- Church, ministry, or educational use in either preaching, distribution, or teaching. Please include:
- Name of the church, ministry organization, or educational institution and class
- Mode of distribution (i.e., hard copies, PowerPoint, printed quote, post on a website)
- Number of copies requested
- Length of term requested for use
- Personal use. Please explain.
- Inclusion in a book or periodical. Please include:
In granting a license, P&R considers the following:
- The title you will be quoting from
- The content of the quotation you will be using
- Your purpose for using the quotation
- The media in which the quotation will be reproduced
- The number of copies that will be made
- The period of time the quotation will be used for
If you are interested in obtaining translation and overseas subsidiary rights, please write to permissions@prpbooks.com.