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Welcome

The Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC) is a trade association, founded in 1974, whose aims are to foster an environment in which our members will flourish and to expand an awareness of the value of books in all our lives. We are a regional affiliate of the Association of Canadian Publishers.

For more information on our member-driven association go to Who We Are.

See all our members in our Member Directory

For more on what we do, see our 2023 Activities Report.

News & Events

Internship Opportunity: Books BC Community Engagement intern

December 3rd, 2024

Books BC invites applications to an upcoming internship opportunity.

Supported by the Canada Book Fund, the internship will run from January 13th to May 23rd of 2025. Over the course of 20 weeks, the Books BC Community Engagement intern will work on community engagement projects that develop awareness and appreciation of BC books for various audiences, and support our strategic goal of being a community “hub” for publishers, and book-related stakeholders. 

Please send your resume and a brief email outlining your interest in the position to careers@books.bc.ca by January 3rd, 2025. 

We particularly encourage applicants who identify as being from diverse communities, including those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of colour; people with disabilities; people identifying as LGBTQ2S+, and people facing economic barriers. 

*Please note this position is only open to Canadian citizens and those who have not previously benefited from a Canada Book Fund supported internship.

A full job description can be found here and on our careers page.

Books BC announces its 2024-25 Books for Schools program and online database for K-12 educators

October 16th, 2024

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books BC) is excited to announce the 2024-25 edition of our Books for Schools database. Books for Schools helps BC and Canadian publishers to effectively reach the K-12 market while providing teachers, teacher-librarians, other educators, and booksellers in BC and Canada with a free community resource to find suitable and appropriate books for the K-12 audience.

Our BC Books for Schools and Indigenous Books for Schools collections have been long-standing initiatives of the Association since 2007. BC Books for Schools comprises BC-published titles, and Indigenous Books for Schools includes Canadian-published titles by Indigenous creators. Both collections are now available as a combined database on BooksForSchools.ca supported by enhanced search functionality and accessibility for users. The database is updated annually, with a total of 324 titles in the BC Books for Schools collection and 260 titles in the Indigenous Books for Schools collection so far.

“We are incredibly proud of the evolution of this book program, which began as print catalogues mailed to every school in BC and has now become a free searchable database. It’s the easiest way to find BC books for BC students, as recommended by BC teachers and with links to curriculum,” says Leslie Bootle, Executive Director of Books BC, of the BC Books for Schools program.

The titles are selected and evaluated by qualified K-12 educators from BC, and annotations include a descriptive review, grade level and curriculum matches, and theme mapping. The titles in the Indigenous Books for Schools collection undergo an additional evaluation for authentic Indigenous Voice, an evaluation process developed by the program’s lead education consultant Jackie Lever based on Dr. Greg Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style.

Books BC would like to thank our funders for their continued support of this program, in particular the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC, and the City of Vancouver.

Learn more about the database and our unique evaluation process and find hundreds of evaluated K-12 books at BooksForSchools.ca.

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