Today is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! ✨ It’s our chance to celebrate amazing indie bookstores across the country.

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#CIBD #CanadianIndependentBookstoreDay #ShopLocal #IndieBookstore

Congratulations to LPG members Biblioasis, Book*hug Press, & ECW Press whose books have been shortlisted for TWUC's 27th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award!

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This #WorldBookandCopyrightDay , we’re sharing the impacts generative AI is currently having on Canada's book industry. Everyday publishers are facing new & complex copyright challenges due to AI, all the while having to deal with a broken fair dealing system at the foundation.

Congratulations to author Sid Marty who won the prestigious Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize for his book OLDMAN'S RIVER, published by LPG member NeWest Press!

'With Budget 2024 just around the corner, and the window for action narrowing, the government must make good on its promise to secure a sustainable future for creating and publishing in Canada. Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers can’t afford to wait any longer.'

If we don't invest in Canadian stories, they will cease to be written. #Budget2024 may be the last chance for this government to fulfill its promise to increase funding for writers & publishers. Pascale St-Onge & Chrystia Freeland, the pen is in your hand ✍️ publishers.ca/increase-cbf-p…

📣Urgent call to action: a united front of over a dozen Canadian writing & publishing organizations urge
Pascale St-Onge & Chrystia Freeland to honour their commitment to increase funding to the Canada Book Fund & Public Lending Right in #Budget2024 . #cdnpoli

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With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata , here are the 50 books from independent lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in Mar 2024. Feat. a top 10 from Coach House Books, ECW Press, Biblioasis, Arsenal Pulp Press, and Vehicule Press.

Congratulations to LPG member Biblioasis and their authors whose books have been longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction!

From the week: Rights Edition: Yet Another Blow to hashtag#Copyright in Canada | Porter Anderson rebrand.ly/x6o0y5i Access Copyright Literary Press Group The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 hashtag#LBF24 | ‘Leaving creators and publishers on their own to challenge infringement’: a new court decision.

With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata , here are the 50 books from independent lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in Feb 2024. Feat. a top 10 from Coach House Books, ECW Press, Biblioasis, Arsenal Pulp Press, and Vehicule Press.

ACP is deeply concerned by a recent Federal Court decision involving the K-12 sector & Access Copyright, which stresses the urgent need for reform of Canada's outdated copyright law. Legislative change is required to ensure creators are fairly compensated. publishers.ca/publishers-con…

>150 million pages per year of uncompensated copying by K-12 education is not 'fair': Literary Press Group calls for government action to protect the rights of creators and publishers in the wake of federal court ruling lpg.ca/news/13321905

Thank you, Ontario Arts Council!

cc: Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her)