Five Rainbows

Services for Authors
and Publishers

Subsidiary of

Slipdown Mountain Publications

Five Rainbows provides quick, friendly service at half the cost of other services I found. I have used their services three times and recommend them wholeheartedly.
Annie Heckman, Owner/Director
Step Sister Press, LLC
StepSisterPress.com

I want to thank you for the prompt and gracious service on my request for a CIP block for Der Arzt. I appreciated your patience with my questions, and your clear and accurate replies.
Mary N. Wessling, MS, PhD
WesslingMedTech.com

Besides creating my CIP data, Five Rainbows went the extra mile to help me when I had problems accessing my PCN number from the Library of Congress. They were prompt and professional...I highly recommend their services.
Bill Jamerson, Escanaba, MI

Most self-publishers and many small, independent publishers find themselves unable to acquire Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP) data, due to LoC policy. This data appears on the book's copyright page (reverse side, or verso, of the title page) and may be used by librarians to determine how to catalog and shelve your book. If you cannot acquire LoC CIP data, you may include a Publisher's CIP (PCIP) block on the copyright page.

Although there are differences of opinion about how useful this data is to librarians and whether its presence will lead to more library sales, a CIP block is an inexpensive addition that may help sell books to libraries and may make your self- or micro-publishing business appear more established, professional, and knowledgeable.

Probably the biggest advantage to having PCIP data for your book is that it may get your book cataloged faster and out on the shelves of libraries faster than books for which the librarians have to create the cataloging data.

Our staff includes a professional librarian who develops the Publisher's CIP data block for all of our books. We can't guarantee that it will benefit your book, but it certainly won't hurt!

You must have an ISBN, and should have a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN), before we can develop your CIP data. You can get your LCCN via the Preassigned Control Number (PCN) program and purchase ISBNs at ISBN.org

We complete PCIP orders in the order we receive them with turnaround time varying depending on our current workload and the complexity of the cataloging task. Once we receive your order and payment, we will send you a confirming email with a firm completion date.

If you must have it by a specific date,
click here to send us an email request
BEFORE SUBMITTING THE FORM BELOW OR PAYING.