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CIP: What It Means, How to Read It, Who Should Get It

by Joel Friedlander on March 23, 2010 59 Comments

There is one place in printed books where we look for all kinds of editorial, bibliographic, legal, promotional and production information: the copyright page. But among all this information, data, legal notices and marketing and contact information, there’s one piece of content on the copyright page that is obscure to most people who pick up […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Self-Publishing Tagged With: CIP, copyright page, Library of Congress, Quality Books, self-publish a book

Copyright Page Samples You Can Copy and Paste Into Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on January 15, 2010 252 Comments

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. But it doesn’t have to be that way. […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Editorial, Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Tagged With: CIP, copyright

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