Our most recent reports

• The eleventh annual BC Book Day will be celebrated on April 15, 2025
• Message from Books BC Board Chair Regarding U.S. Tariffs
• BC Book Publisher New Star Books Announces its Winding Down of Operations

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Friends of Books BC

• Alicon Holdings Ltd.
• Ampersand Inc.
• Arquipélago Press
• BC Booksellers Association
• BC BookWorld
• BC Library Association
• Adagio Media
• The British Columbia Review
• Cloudscape Comics
• Editors’ Association of Canada, BC Branch
• Federation of British Columbia Writers
• Figure 1 Publishing
• Friesens Corporation
• Heritage Group Distribution
• Houghton Boston Printers
• Magazine Association of BC (MAGSBC)
• Marquis Book Printing / Marquis Imprimeur
• McKellar & Martin Publishing Group
• Misguided Press
• Page Two Strategies
• Rainbow Publishers/Raven Chapbooks
• Rebel Goose Books
• Serif
• Simon Fraser University, CISP Press
• Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
• Vancouver Writers Fest
• West Coast Book Prize Society (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)
• Whitecap Books

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