I regained the rights to a book I published hardcopy with a regular publisher. I am about to epublish it. Has anyone out there done this? What do you put on the copyright page? Thanks!
regain rights, then epublish
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Skeexix, welcome to AW.
I assume that you intend to self-publish an electronic edition of your book, rather than submit it to e-publishers, so I'm going to move this to our self publishing room. Let me know if I've made a mistake.
I assume that you intend to self-publish an electronic edition of your book, rather than submit it to e-publishers, so I'm going to move this to our self publishing room. Let me know if I've made a mistake.
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Plenty of people do this. My own efforts have been a little half-hearted but I now have a pile of reverted books I mean to make available. Probably as ebooks and POD.
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Copyright page should say something like this:
THINGUMMY: A NOVEL
A Somethingorother Press book
[ISBN]
First published [year] by [company]
This edition published [year]
Copyright (c) Skeexix, [year of first publication]
All rights reserved. [Usually you put a bit of boilerplate here explaining that people can't copy or distribute your book without your express permission.]
[You can also put some bumf here, like your web page address.]
what about including the Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication material? I've seen that done in other ebooks. "The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:" etc---
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Ah, yes - in the Uk we would put something like 'a CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library' - for US titles, you seem
to use the more fulsome LoC wording, including a synopsis and keywords. Though of course you'd need to ensure that it was indeed catalogued, so you'd need to arrange that (no idea how, sorry - Google will know I'm sure.)
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I'm gonna second what Torgo said - having recently gone through this with one of my books, and having helped publisher hubby with some of his clients.
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For an ebook, it's probably not necessary or all that useful. AFAIK, these are mostly used by libraries and booksellers and not applicable to a "self-published" ebook.
Indexing and synopsis at the individual store will be based on items you put into a form when you add the book to the store.
Yes, John Whuhchew-McCallit's Thingummy is one of our biggest sellers. Its sequel, Revenge of the Thingamajig, will be out soon. Thanks for the plug.
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I can't recommend his first, Doodads, Doohickeys, and That...That...You Know...That...THING...You Know...The...The...THE THING...You KNOW, enough.
I found it a bit longwinded and lacking in direction, to be honest. But you know what they say about first novels.
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