Question on writing Publishers Cataloging In Publication D..

d.hanselman DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote:

>
> felineaids wrote:
>> My book is about to go off to the printers, and I'm trying to get
>> information about how to write a Publishers Cataloging In Publication
>> Data blurb for my book. I've already read that authors can and often
>> do this for this for themselves, but I'm not sure where to begin. Any
>> resources or ideas would be helpful.
>
> Don't try to do it yourself. Unless you are an expert, you won't get it
> right. Hire someone who knows how to do it. Try http://www.cipblock.com/

Fiction generally doesn't require the block.

You can create a Publishers CIP on a best efforts basis since it
is not regulated anywhere. But it doesn't do much good either,
except to impress reviewers (perhaps.) Libraries may appreciate
it after they buy the book, but the PCIP won't influence them to
buy the book in the same way the genuine LOC CIP would.

See David Li's book "All-by-Yourself Self-Publishing" for
details on rolling your own PCIP. The hard part is determining
the crazy codes across the bottom. If you find a book on the
same subject as yours you can perhaps crib the codes from there.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
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