Hope I'm posting this in the correct forum here -- and I suppose this might actually be a question to ask Library & Archives Canada (LAC), but they're closed on the weekend so I thought I'd toss it out here and see if anyone has any thoughts...
I'm a bit confused about something. I'm working on my very first ebook, and while scouring these forums and elsewhere all over the 'net, I was curious about how others set up the front matter, more specifically the CIP data. Although I do actually like perusing that info in books (call me weird), at the same time even in print books I always found it to be an "ugly" part of the beginning of a book, that it would be so much nicer if they'd stuck it at the end -- like, as part of a colophon or something.
I did come across one or two sites on epublishing where they actually recommended doing just that -- basically to provide a very simple, short copyright notice at the beginning of the ebook and then just link it to the full CIP at the end of the book. That made sense to me, and so while designing my ebook, that's exactly what I did -- and it worked out really nicely, the first bunch of pages flowed very well from page-to-page, especially when viewed in iBooks in two-page landscape mode (I currently don't have any other ereaders I can test my book out on).
And then the other day I got my CIP data from the LAC, and in their email with that they state, rather unequivocally:
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Print the CIP data on the verso of the title page without alteration to sequence, punctuation, capitalization or format.
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That totally screwed up my lovely design -- at least as far as viewing it in two-page landscape mode goes (it wouldn't matter so much if/when viewed as a single page, one page at a time). I was surprised to read that in their email, though, since I'd read elsewhere the recommendation to plop the CIP at the end of the book instead (with a link from a small copyright notice at the beginning).
I can call the LAC and ask them about that on Monday, of course, but in the meantime does anyone else out there have any thoughts on that? Are they really that strict about where the CIP goes?
Thanks in advance!
