Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

339.0. "Date on copyright page" by JUMBLY::MERCHANT () Wed May 23 1990 08:10

    Can I ask for thoughts on these suggestions, which have come up as we
    are working on two products for CD? If we post dates on our books, I
    like to make them as meaningful to the reader as possible. (I'm an
    editor!)

  o	The Date at the top of the copyright page should be the date the
	book first goes onto a CD.  Reasons - it's the nearest equivalent
	to the "first printing" common in hardcopy publishing; and it's
	not desirable to make the CD date match the hard copy date (they may
	be months apart, they may be revised at different frequencies).

  o	The Date at the top of the copyright page should be expanded to
	read something like:  "First distributed in Bookreader version,
	July 1990".  Reason - to make it clear that the date refers only to 
	Bookreader.

    Also, might an <online_copyright_date> tag be needed?
    
    Also posted in BOOKREADER.           
    
    Mike

    Mike,
    
    Thanks for the suggestions. We'll put them on the wishlist. Any other
    suggestions? Anyone else think <online_copyright_date> would be useful?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary

    
    
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