Answers.Body: <p>Anything that you want to actually show up on an ebook reader will need to be in the content files of the epub, just like any of the chapters or other divisions of the text. It is possible to include a description in the metadata of the book; this should appear in the <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> section of the content.opf file and be formatted as described in the <a href="http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-opf-dcmes-optional" rel="nofollow">epub 3.0 specification</a>. That metadata will not necessarily be visible to any reading systems, but it'll be in there.</p>
  
  <p>Note that the <code>&lt;dc:description&gt;</code> element uses the <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/" rel="nofollow">Dublin Core Metadata standard</a>, which says</p>
  
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    <p>Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of
    contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the
    resource.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So while there's some room for interpretation, it's not really the place for blurbs as such, which are generally endorsements rather than "account[s] of the resource."</p>
  
  <p>Again: if you want it to be read by devices, just include it as another section of the manuscript.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>What you call a "blurb" has actually a long tradition in publishing, is, or should be, a presentation, a comment  written by the publisher. In France they use a very nice word: "prière d'insérer" referring to a text prepared by the publisher and aimed to booksellers and general readers. I believe such a text can find a right position immediately after the summary and before the beginning of the main content. Anyway don't forget to put something also into the "description" tag of metadata section of .opf file.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is there a standard way to add a blurb to an epub file, and to Amazon files, such that the information will show up on an ereader device?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: What do you mean by a blurb?
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Comments.Text: Blurbs are those bits of praise that you generally see on the back cover, like "I loved it, it was much better than Cats" -Author's Mom
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Comments.Text: so the best thing to do is to add them as a "last chapter", I think
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Title: Adding blurb/summary metadata to an ebook file
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ThreadText: # Adding blurb/summary metadata to an ebook file
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-05-05)
  
  Is there a standard way to add a blurb to an epub file, and to Amazon files, such that the information will show up on an ereader device?
  
  **Tags:** epub, mobi, metadata
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What do you mean by a blurb?  
  > **username_2**: Blurbs are those bits of praise that you generally see on the back cover, like "I loved it, it was much better than Cats" -Author's Mom  
  > **username_3**: so the best thing to do is to add them as a "last chapter", I think  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-05-05. Score: 4
  
  Anything that you want to actually show up on an ebook reader will need to be in the content files of the epub, just like any of the chapters or other divisions of the text. It is possible to include a description in the metadata of the book; this should appear in the `<meta>` section of the content.opf file and be formatted as described in the [epub 3.0 specification](http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-opf-dcmes-optional). That metadata will not necessarily be visible to any reading systems, but it'll be in there.
  
  Note that the `<dc:description>` element uses the [Dublin Core Metadata standard](http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/), which says
  
  > Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of
  > contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the
  > resource.
  
  So while there's some room for interpretation, it's not really the place for blurbs as such, which are generally endorsements rather than "account[s] of the resource."
  
  Again: if you want it to be read by devices, just include it as another section of the manuscript.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2014-05-09. Score: 2
  
  What you call a "blurb" has actually a long tradition in publishing, is, or should be, a presentation, a comment written by the publisher. In France they use a very nice word: "prière d'insérer" referring to a text prepared by the publisher and aimed to booksellers and general readers. I believe such a text can find a right position immediately after the summary and before the beginning of the main content. Anyway don't forget to put something also into the "description" tag of metadata section of .opf file.
  
  
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