Front and Back matter in User Guides (where do you put the company contact info)

["Caroline Tabach" <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi,
All of our User Guides (and other documents)  contain the contact info
(addresses, phone numbers, emails) of our offices at the beginning of
the book beneath copyright info.
The contact info also appears on the page that would have been the
back cover (if we were printing).

Someone looking through one of these books (who is neither a writer
nor an English speaker), told us this information should not appear in
the beginning of the books and asked why it was there.

My answer was, well, the original professional who put them together
did it like this, but I did not have an authoritive answer.

I have now checked in the Sun guide "Read me First" which tells you to
add this info to the beginning of the book.

Is this how everyone does it?

What do you have on the back page, both of a PDF file, or of a printed book?

What font size do you use for this information?

Thanks

-- 
Caroline Tabach
Technical Writer
e-mail: caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com
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