I stab 'em, you slab 'em
Dilemma in the office today: the new 13-digit ISBN number. We're experiencing a glut in our reprint process. Reprints rarely need correcting, but with the implemenation of the new 13-digit ISBN, now EVERY title coming through needs a new number stripped in on the CIP page.
This is creating a bunch of work for me, the compositor (which is both good and bad), but it's really killing our project editor, who has been providing me with a brand-new CIP block so I can set the whole page without having to retype anything, and because it is more cost effective to tip in, so to speak, a new CIP page than to simply strip in one line.
One option we're toying with is the implementation of a "CYA line" (my term). You know, the one that says "Cataloging information available from the Library of Congress." So our new CIP pages would have the boilerplate publisher's info, the (c) line, the ANSI acid-free paper blurb, the CYA line, the new 13-digit ISBN, and the print line.
My question to you SLIStastic folk: how important is it to have the CIP block printed in the book and are we going to piss off librarians by ditching it? I'm indifferent: setting a few lines as opposed to an entire page is not that much more (or less) work for me. But the project editor is having to rekey (or OCR scan) a lot of old text that may or may not be superfluous. Time was, that CIP block was sacred and extremely helpful to indexers, catalogers, etc. With so much info available online now, is it still pertinent?
Okay, gotta bolt to a meeting. Any advice appreciated. TIA!