Do I have to put my home address (although I am on Google maps), or direct all enquiries to my website and email address? I have been reading your copyright examples, should it include digitally sharing and downloading the publication. Now I have rewritten and added content to make one of my six guides into an eBook that I am going to ‘test the waters’ and sell on Amazon Kindle. I have a website that I pay for each year and have written several guides for Interview Techniques. I am just finishing writing an eBook as an individual and not a company or business (it’s a hobby). We now have publishing packages to help you. If you’re looking for a company to help you finish the formatting and design of your book, look no further. Even with this short example, your copyright page will do the job it’s supposed to do, and give interested parties the means to contact you for publishing-related questions. This is the quick and easy way to get generic copyright page language into your book. Without the express written permission of the publisherĮxcept for the use of brief quotations in a book review. May not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever It gives the necessary elements and not much more:Īll rights reserved. Here’s a very short and to the point copyright page. Another subject category -From one perspective. The main category of the book -History -Other category. Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication dataĪ title of a book : a subtitle of the same book / Bill Shakespeare with Ben Johnson.ġ. Please contact Big Distribution: Tel: (800) 800-8000 Fax: (800) 800-8001 or visit Printed in the United States of America For details, contact the publisher at the address above. Special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Permissions Coordinator,” at the address below. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Here’s an example of a copyright page that has the necessary elements, then adds ordering information, web address, CIP Data block (I’ve put this in blue so you can identify what is included replace this with your own or delete it if you’re not obtaining CIP), edition information, and printing numbers (the string at the bottom) and dates for future editions.Īll rights reserved. Sample Copyright Page #1: Long Version with CIP Data Block Just remember to put your own information in. Feel free to copy and paste these into your book file. Next you’ll see two versions of the copyright page, one long page with a CIP data block and a short version. The only elements required on a copyright page are the copyright notice itself:Īnd some statement giving notice that the rights to reproduce the work are reserved to the copyright holder. To see the place of the copyright page within the book as a whole, check out An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book. In a guest post, Joanne Bolton supplied some useful information for books that are printed overseas, and you can find her post here: Copyright Page Requirements for Books Printed Overseas. I’ve treated the copyright page in some detail in other posts, so if you want background please check here: Self-Publishing Basics: The Copyright Page. There are a few necessary items on the copyright page, and others that publishers add for various reasons. One of the most common questions I get from new self-publishers is, “What do I put on the copyright page?” For some reason, the copyright page has the power to intimidate some people, with its small print and legalistic language, not to mention all those mysterious numbers.īut it doesn’t have to be that way. So why exactly do you need a sample copyright page?
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