Title Page

[French: Page Titre]

This section should be called "Title Page" and be made a Heading 1.

A common mistake is to confuse the cover page (often on the book jacket) with the title page. The title page is found inside the book, and it consists of:

Remove extra title pages.

Some titles have two title pages. We only need one title page formatted as described above.

Example of Title Page in Publishing File

Example of Title Page Reformatted in MS Word

If you have any questions, check the archive below, if still not clear, post your question on the Production Q&A

Q&A Archive

Q: When a book has a cover page, should we give it a "heading 1" that says Cover Page? When a book includes a summary of the work, what heading would this be given? To offer some context, the book I am working with (A Boy Named Queen) includes the summary that would be on the dust cover; in this particular case, the text appears on what would be the front inside flap of the dust cover. (So sorry for my non-technical language!)

A: Usually we delete the Cover Page image (as there's usually no content other than title and author, which is often already on the Title Page). In the case of A Boy Named Queen, the Cover Page is on a book jacket that has a summary of the book. We can keep the summary and put it at the end of the book (before Terms of Use) with a Heading 1 called Book Summary. See also Back Cover.


Q: We Rise Again has a title page with a bunch of images on it.

Two questions:

1) The subtitle is above the title on this page. Should I instead put it in the Title Page as "We Rise Again: More Stories of Hope and Resilience from Nova Scotia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" ?

2) What should I do with these images? Since they don't seem entirely decorative, I'm thinking of cropping out the four images and inserting them into the Title Page (with alt-text). I've never seen an edited title page with images like this, though, so I'm not 100% on this move. The logo I would replace with text and I would not include the plaid background.

A:

  1. Yes!
  2. They are all decorative. So you can remove them. And yes, replace the logo with text.

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