[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question: Title page position
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:52:05 -0800
Hi Judy,
I treat the page with title, author, and publisher on it as the title page.
But because I'm slightly neurotic, I bold and enlarge all instances of the
title of the book before the actual text of the book begins. Maybe that's
overkill, and might confuse. But I thought I was covering my butt and being
more thorough this way.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:28 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question: Title page position
Hi Mayrie, this raises a question for me. I've run into a lot of books that
have the title only on the first page, or the title and author. Then,
within the next several pages they may repeat that several times and then
finally have a page of what is the 'real' title page with the title, author
and publisher on it. Which one should I treat as the title page? Sometimes
this page even occurs after the copyright page. I've been treating the one
with title, author and publisher on it as the title page.
Don't you love the publishing industry and how it has consistent layouts?
grin.
Judy s.
Mayrie ReNae wrote:
Hi Denise,
It sounds to me like the title page that staff is talking about is the first
title page (many books have two). The first title page contains title,
author, and publisher only. Generally, the second title page only contains
the title of the book, and nothing else.
So, I'd say not to move the title page that you have on page ten. I assume
that at this point, before you've made any changes, that page 7 is blank.
On that page, just type the title of the book, bold it, and enlarge it to 20
point font. Then type the author and below that the publisher.
In most cases, the copyright page is on the flipside of the actual title
page containing title, author, and publisher.
And after those two pages are often acknowledgements, dedication, maybe a
blank page, and possibly a page containing just the title of the book.
You shouldn't ever need to reorder pages. It sounds like the title page of
your book didn't scan clearly enough to give you recognizable text. This is
very very common as publishers seem to think that fancy fonts are desirable
on title pages and OCR chokes on them.
Hope some of that ramble helps!
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise Wagner
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:45 AM
To: bksvol-discuss
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question: Title page position
Hi all,
I have a simple question. I submitted a book I proofread and it came back
to me needing a title page. The note indicated it should be on page 7. It
does already have a title page on page 10 right before the page where
Chapter One begins.
So, the question is: Is there a particular order in which the Front matter
needs to be in?
I plan to move the title page, of course, to page 7, but I just want to make
sure I understand for future proofreading.
Thanks,
Denise
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