Stanza iPhone/iPod allows you to edit the title, author, and subjects of your books by tapping the "Edit" button in the library list and making changes to the corresponding text fields. Stanza Desktop, however, does not currently provide any means to change the title or author of a book when exporting it to another format or sharing it with Stanza iPhone/iPod. However, if you can edit the underlying document (such as using a text editor for editing RTF or plain text files), you can provide "hints" to Stanza about the title and author of the book. Specifically, if the first line of the document is of the form: "Title: My Title", then Stanza will guess that the title of the book is "My Title". Similarly, if the second line is "Author: The Author", then Stanza will guess that the author is named "The Author".

In a future release of Stanza Desktop will will allow complete control over the "metadata" of the books by allowing the user to make changes. For the time being, though, the only way to change the information is to either edit the source document in a separate program, or else, if you are sharing the book with Stanza iPhone/iPod, by making the changes via that interface.