This section contains the official copyright notices, publishing history, and legal disclaimers for the eBook publication by Gollancz, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Limited located in London. It formally asserts the moral rights of the author Frank Herbert under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, noting that the work was first published in Great Britain in 2010.
Additionally, the text provides standard legal protections including International Standard Book Number details, a British Library Cataloguing in Publication record, and strict prohibitions against unauthorized reproduction, transmission, or unapproved binding circulation. It concludes with a standard fiction disclaimer stating that all characters and events depicted are entirely fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental.