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Copyright © 2026 Mara Chen. All rights reserved. First edition.
8 Book Copyright Page Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
A good copyright page is accurate, restrained, and tailored to the publication: it includes necessary rights and bibliographic information without copying irrelevant legal language from another book.
- Copyright notice and rights holder.
- Edition or publication information.
- ISBN or other identifiers where applicable.
- Publisher/imprint and manufacturing details where desired.
- Credits, permissions, disclaimers, or cataloging data when relevant.
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Paperback ISBN: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X. Ebook edition uses a separate identifier in the distributor metadata.
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Cover design by [Name]. Interior illustrations by [Name].
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Published by North Harbor Press, [City/website if desired].
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A fiction work includes a conventional statement that characters and incidents are products of imagination, tailored to the publisher’s policy.
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A nonfiction book lists permissions for a reproduced chart beneath the general copyright notice.
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A translated edition credits the translator and identifies the copyright for the translation separately where applicable.
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A revised edition states “Second edition” and updates the year rather than presenting the original page unchanged.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.