Imprint
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This article is about imprints in publishing. For other uses, see Imprint (disambiguation).
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In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:
- As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.[1]
- It can mean a trade name under which a work is published.[citation needed] One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to market works to different demographic consumer segments. In some cases, the diversity results from the takeover of smaller publishers (or parts of their business) by a larger company. This usage of the word has evolved from the first meaning given above.
- It can also refer to a finer distinction of a book's version than "edition".[citation needed] This is used to distinguish, for example different printings, or printing runs of the same edition, or to distinguish the same edition produced by a different publisher or printer. With the creation of the "ISBN" identification system, which is assigned to a text prior to its printing, a different imprint has effectively come to mean a text with a different ISBN—if one had been assigned to it.
- The word imprint or masthead is sometimes used on international websites, normally translated from German. This usually contains an "Impressum" that contains legal information, such as website details with information on the responsible person or entity.
[edit] Examples of imprints/publishing brand names
Below are a few examples of imprints (in the meaning of brand names), sorted by publishing company in alphabetical order. It shows the diversity of imprints and how widely they are used in the publishing industry. This list is intended to show examples, not be a comprehensive list, so no more than a few imprints per publishing house are given. Notice that it is possible for imprints to be organized under a publisher that is itself an imprint of an even larger publishing house.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Cowley (1970, pp. 29–32, 77–88)
[edit] References
- Cowley, John Duncan (1970) Bibliographical description and cataloguing New York: Burt Franklin http://books.google.com.au/books?id=K9D8dUsxbxQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
