More support for publishers from official-language minority communities

In collaboration with Doris Boivin, Canadian Heritage

Canadian Heritage's Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) provides more assistance to Canadian official-language minority publishers. In fact, the Program changed some of its criteria to allow more flexibility for those communities. During the 2007–2008 fiscal year, the BPIDP is supporting six publishers of the Regroupement des éditeurs canadiens-français (RÉCF). The Program specifically supports direct book sales projects, promotion and marketing in bookstores; it also supports the ZOF (zone francophone) office in Montreal, which aims to support and assist Canadian Francophone writers outside Quebec in carving out a niche for themselves in the Quebec market, especially in Montreal. Finally, the BPIDP's flexibility regarding criteria among official-language minority communities resulted in a significant increase in contributions to RÉCF members.

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