One month ago, the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) announced a partnership with Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) to launch the Alberta eBooks Collection. Thanks to that...
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Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, ABFriday, March 17, 2017
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Vancouver, BCTuesday, February 14, 2017
A total of 16 volumes, almost 8,000 pages of e-text, 600 hours of audio, and 6.75 gigabytes of information: every volume of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reports on residential schools is now available for free and open download in e-text and Daisy audio formats.
The French and English reports can be found by searching the NNELS...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The highly-anticipated CBC Canada Reads 2017 shortlist is being released today by host Ali Hassan and guests on CBC's q on radio and internet across the country. This year's guests will debate the question, "What is the one book Canadians need now?" The debates will take place from March 27 to 30, 2017 -...
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Friday, January 27, 2017
The 2017 winner of British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was announced yesterday by the BC Achievement Foundation. The winner, “...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
The Nova Scotia government, in partnership with members of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, recently contributed 84 titles in EPUB formats to the NNELS database, highlighting works written and published in Atlantic Canada.
The titles include a range of fiction and non-fiction for...
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Pemberton and Vancouver, BCFriday, December 2, 2016
To celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and our third birthday, both of which are tomorrow, we’re pleased to announce the addition of...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Congratulations to this year's winning and nominated GG Books authors and publishers! What a pleasure it has been to work with the Canada Council for the Arts to bring you the 2016 winners in accessible formats. The Canada Council gave us advance access to the list of winners so that we could get...
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Monday, September 26, 2016
With thanks to the support from the Scotiabank Giller Prize, we are excited to announce that four of this year's six shortlisted titles are available in accessible formats to readers with print disabilities through NNELS on the day of their national announcement. Congratulations to the shortlisted...
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