copyright page for book projects

[alan-isaac]

Description

As far as I can tell, Quarto has no concept of a copyright page for a book project. Yet books typically have a copyright page (which typically includes bibliographic detail as well). This page is unnumbered and comes before the table of contents (so it cannot just be part of index.qmd). In hard copy, a copyright page is typically the flip side of the title page. Can Quarto add this concept to book projects?

[cderv]

Thanks for the feedback. Can you share example of online book with such page ?

Also if you have example of LaTeX book with such page, or Typst book ?

Thank you.

[alan-isaac]

You can find an example in almost any physical book, typically on the flip side of the coverpage (i.e., the "verso" page). Ebooks seem most often push the copyright page to the very end of the book, but it is still an identified page. (Dedication and acknowledgement pages are also common.) I'd be interested to know of a professionally published exception. Here is a free copyright page generator for the Kindle format. The LaTeX book class provides complex concepts of frontmatter and back matter, typically including the copyright page in frontmatter. (It would be great for Quarto to make this a target for support.) The Chicago Manual of Style discusses these concepts and provides details for a copyright page, but you have to sign in to see this. However, the following prompt should work with any AI: "Describe the location and content of the copyright page of a book according to the Chicago Manual of Style." I can provide a LaTeX example, but most books have more complex front matter. If you look at the fourth page of Sets, Logic, Computation you'll see a nice example. (It comes with full source code.)

Does that give you what you need?