But wait a minute. There are those folks who think that because there's no copyright notice anywhere on the content that they're free to reproduce it or even put their name on it or submit it elsewhere and say they produced it. Let's get the copyright notice on this baby.
Er, what should be in the copyright notice? It's pretty simple. "@ [insert year] [insert name of author]". There. You've created the copyright notice. Want a variation of it? Okay. "Copyright [insert year] [insert name of author]". Just open any book to the cover page or the copyright page. You'll find an example in either of those locations. (Sometimes the copyright page is combined with the cover page.)
If you're dealing with those copyright neophytes, you may want to include some restricted rights language. Follow your copyright notice with the sentence, "All rights reserved."
Unfortunately, these folks have no clue about what "reserved" means. So you can expand the statement with additional details. The Book Designer provides the language that can be used for legal notices, both long form as well as short. There's no guarantee that they'll pay any attention to the language. However, duplicating services do understand what it means and they will not reproduce a work that lacks the proper notices. Heavy penalties are levied if they're caught violating these laws.
The Book Designer goes into a lot (I mean a lot) of detail about what to do if you discover your content is being "shared" all over the place. (Can you tell I've discovered another book publishing magi?)
Okay. It's time to start working on the manuscript, inserting the images, formatting the table of contents and chapter headings. Then this precious babe can get submitted to the publisher.
And the next bit of satisfaction can start. Rehearsing the speech.
Wait a minute. What about that thing called the ISBN?
Resources:
- Copyright Page Samples You Can Copy and Paste Into Your Book
- Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book
- Avast! Piracy and the Self-Publisher
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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