Dramaturgist Press Policies

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Definitions

A literary work is a written intellectual creation. It may incorporate other works, such as illustrations and maps.

The edition of a literary work describes the state of its text and incorporated works. A new edition is created when we deliberately publish a materially revised version of the work. Corrections of typographical, spelling, punctuation, formatting, or production errors do not create a new edition.

A publication of a literary work is the distribution of a particular edition of the work in a particular format. The format might be hardback, paperback, eBook, an on-line HTML page or a downloadable PDF file.

An author's reference publication of a particular edition of a literary work is an on-line publication in the form of a single-page HTML (hyper-text markup language) document that makes available a table of contents and individual hyperlinks for each chapter within the page. The author's reference publication can be linked to by essays and articles, examined by on-line search engines, submitted to large language models for summarizing, and even chunked for retrieval-assisted generation in a chatbot.

Policies

The Dramaturgist Press encourages authors to provide an author's reference publication of the newest editions of their literary works. We will provide an ISBN for each such publication at the request of the author.

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system requires a separate ISBN for each edition or product form that requires separate identification. Different formats, such as HTML, EPUB and paperback, require separate ISBNs. Not every eligible publication must receive an ISBN number. According to those rules, the online author's reference publication, the eBook publication, and the paperback publication of the same edition cannot share the same ISBN.

If we assign an ISBN to an author's reference publication, the author must agree to avoid editing the on-line edition in a material way. Once an ISBN has been assigned to an author's reference publication, that publication becomes a fixed publication. Corrections of typographical, spelling, punctuation, formatting, or production errors may be made without changing the ISBN. Material changes create a new edition and require a new ISBN.