NP:Publishers/Copyrights

[Patrick Schreuder]

     It's legal to put a 1999 copyright on a book, as long as you publish 
     it not more than three months before the copyright date.
     So if Vineland was published after October 1989 it would get a 1990 
     copyright. 
     
     One of the reasons is that is increases the time the book will be on a 
     publishers frontlist (the new books), after a while they put it on the 
     backlist (which they don't sell as actively). 
     
     Hope this helps,
     
     
     Patrick Schreuder
     
     
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Subject: Re: NP:(P now) Back to the Future with Don DeLillo
Author:  keith woodward <woodwaka at uwec.edu> at Internet-Gateway-Pub-UK 
Date:    2-12-98 18:08
     
     
Weisenberger calls it "Histero Proteron," doesn't he?
     
Keith W
>
>I can't remember if they were actually on the shelves before 
>the New Year--can anyone?
>Did anybody else get a *review* copy of VL and experience this time warp? 
>
>Probably no mystery,  probably some accounting dodge, is all, 
>but it really does give one an eerie feeling
>until the calendar catches up.
>
>jm