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The Book Info menu item<\/strong> is where you put information about your book, referred to as the metadata (\"data about the data\"), and it's what allows search engines, distributors and libraries to locate and classify it. Metadata answers questions such as: What is the title? Who is the author? When was it published? What is the book about?<\/em> etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

In <\/em>Pressbooks we use Book Info<\/strong> for three purposes:<\/p>\n

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  1. to add certain required metadata to a file inside your ebook;<\/li>\n
  2. to automatically populate certain pages in your book (specifically the cover, the title page, and the copyright notice);<\/li>\n
  3. to build a book landing page on the web (if your book is \"Private\" then only you can see this).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let's take a look at the various sections of the Book Info page, what the information is used for and where it goes.<\/p>\n

    General Book Information<\/h2>\n

    This is the basic information about your book, and includes:<\/p>\n

    Title:<\/strong> The \"title\" is the name of your book. This goes into your automatically-created title page (in ebooks and PDF), populates the running headers[footnote]\"In typography, a page header<\/b> (or simply header<\/b>) is text that is separated from the main body of text and appears at the top of a printed page....\" see Wikipedia<\/a>.[\/footnote]  in many themes, and is used as the title of the web version of your book. The title is also a required bit of metadata that goes into your ebook files. This is a required<\/em> field.<\/p>\n

    Short Title:<\/strong> The \"short title\" is used to make a \"shorter\" running header in PDFs, when the title of your book would be too long to fit on the top of the page. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Subtitle:<\/strong> The \"subtitle\" is used on the automatically generated title page (PDF and ebooks), as well as on the webbook landing page. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Author:<\/strong> The \"author\" is used on the automatically generated title page (PDF and ebooks), as well as on the webbook landing page. It's also included in the metadata file in your ebook. This field is required<\/em>, and will default to your Pressbooks username if nothing is entered.<\/p>\n

    Author, file as:<\/strong>  This is included in the metadata file in your ebook, and defines how an ebook should be \"filed\" or sorted, usually last name first. So, a book with author \"Jane Smith,\" would have \"Author, file as: Smith, Jane.\" This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Publisher:<\/strong> This is the publisher of the book, and will appear on the automatically generated title page (PDF and EPUB), in the footer of your webbook, and will be included in the metadata in your ebook files. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Publisher City:<\/strong> Publishing convention lists the city (or cities) where the publisher operates on the title page of a book. Filling in this field will insert publisher city on the title pages in PDF and EPUB. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Publication Date:  <\/strong>This is the date the book is to be, or was published on. This field is optional, <\/em>and we don't do anything in particular with it at the moment.<\/p>\n

    On-sale Date:<\/strong> This is the date the book will go on sale. This would is used by book stores to know when a book will go on sale, but for the moment this data does not get sent anywhere, as Pressbooks does not arrange for distribution and sale of your books. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Ebook ISBN:<\/strong> An ISBN or \"international standard book number\"<\/a> is a number assigned to your book that is unique, and it allows all bookstores across the world to know certain important things about your book, including: title, author, publisher, publication date.  The ebook ISBN is added to the metadata file in your ebook, and is included in the footer of the webbook. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    NOTE: ISBNs are handled differently depending on what country you are in. If you would like to get an ISBN, please go to Google and enter: \"ISBN  [Your country]\".<\/p>\n

    Print ISBN:<\/strong> See above for a description of ISBNs. Note that each format of a book (print, ebook, audiobook) must have its own ISBN. This field is optional.<\/em><\/p>\n

    See above note on how to obtain an ISBN if needed.<\/p>\n

    Language:<\/strong> Setting the language of your book makes it easier for stores to classify and promote your book. And, still in development, changing the \"language\" of your book will make adjustments to the outputs of your book, for instance changing \"Contents\" or \"Chapter\" to the equivalent in your language. Note that this feature is not foolproof, nor is it working across all languages. Please test and let us know if we need to make adjustments. This field is required, <\/em>and defaults to English.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Cover  <\/em><\/h2>\n

    You upload your ebook cover image here. The ebook cover is used:<\/p>\n