Julie Broad walks through what goes on a book's copyright page. The copyright notice with year and owner is essential. Librarians, publishers, and bulk buyers rely on this info, so getting it right matters even if you're self-publishing.
When you write a book, there's some really exciting material you must include. It's on the copyright page. Wondering about that? Stick around. Hi, I'm Julie Broad, award winning author and founder of a fantastic company called Book Launchers that helps you write, publish and sell a business boosting book. It's important for you to know that I'm not a lawyer. I didn't even go to law school. This is not legal advice. This is just one author sharing some info for another author. Get legal advice on legal matters. Okay, cool, cool. So what is the copyright page and what do you need it for? First, you need to know how important this page is. The copyright page is of critical importance to librarians, publishers, bulk book buyers, bibliographers, and even writers who want to quote your book in their book. This is the stuff that. That's this. Hold on a second. Here we go. On the inside of every book and it has the copyright notice, often the edition information, publication information, printing history, cataloging data, legal notices, ISBN or other identification numbers. Some books also contain some credits for design and editing or illustration. I'd like to look at this all important copyright page in a little bit more detail and share what has to be on your page. The single most important element on the copyright page is any guesses the copyright. It's the C symbol or the word copyright. Sometimes it's abbreviated COP or C O P R. Then the year of the first publication and who owns that copyright. The owner could be you, your company, or if you're going the traditional publishing route, it will be the publishing company you've signed your rights over to. Other things that you might want to put on the page. Your reservation of rights where you outline what people can and can't do. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. You may also include the publisher's contact information. Larger publishers will probably include their full contact details. As an indie publisher, you may want to include an email or a website. This is really useful if someone wants to purchase multiple books or ask you for permission to use more than just a quote from your book. But of course you can always put that material at the end of the book too. You might put any trademark notices. So if you've trademarked your book title, publishing company imprint something else, you may want to put a notice on that page. If you're pursuing the Library of Congress listing Then you're going to want that cataloging in publication data. See this video on getting your book into libraries and this video on should you file for copyright protection to know what I'm talking about. Then you'll probably want to include what edition this is for the book if you're on a second or third edition. You may have also noticed on some books a series of numbers on the copyright page. This is indicating print runs with print on demand publishing, which is probably what you're using if you're self publishing. It's not really relevant, but old school printing did mean it. You may also include a statement about the environmental friendliness of your book, for example if it's printed on recycled paper or with non toxic ink. And finally, you might use the copyright page to credit book cover designers, editors or illustrators. But this is not necessary. It's nice to do, but personally I use the acknowledgment pages for that. This is only one page in your book, so put in the elements that are the most important to you as it pertains to the publishing of your book. Shout out to a few resources that help me double check what I was telling you. This book David, Register your book and a blog post from the book designer that actually gives you the copyright pages as examples. I'll put the link to that book and the blog post below. And a thank you to One of my YouTube viewers who told me that I need to share my resources for my videos more often. So there you go. I don't always have resources to share because some of the stuff is just coming right out of my head. If you like this video, smash that thumbs up button and subscribe so we can hang out again soon. Turn on the notifications so you know when a video comes out. Everybody who comments on the day a video is released gets entered to win a prize. Prizes. I'll see you on the next video.
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