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On Friday, June 18, 2004 2:09 PM, Spike Y Jones wrote:
>The longer the exact text you require someone to reproduce under
your
>limited license, the less likely he is to go to the effort >merely for a "thank you" citation (especially if he wants to cite >work from a large number of different books). Your 26-word cite, >complete with an ad for your company that would compete with ads for >his own company, might turn a publisher off. That's a good point; the benefits of citation certainly don't require
anything that lengthy, which was the reasoning behind the shorter "Horde
Book" version of the title.
The "ad" citation text is what I've written for the
citations of OGC in _Masters and Minions_; it's meant to be an ad for the folks
we'd be citing, and for the idea of citation itself, and is designed to
explicitly encourage the reader to dig deeper into the original source. I'd be
happy if other publishers chose to cite my own work that way, but I agree that
it's not necessary. A boilerplate text should default to the least cumbersome
form of citation that still accurately links the source and its content,
since that's the key idea.
- Tavis
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