Support for Publishers: Business Development – Canada Book Fund
$50,000.00
Subsidy
Description:
The Canada Book Fund (CBF) ensures access to a diverse range of Canadian-authored books nationally and internationally, by fostering a strong book industry that publishes and markets Canadian-authored books. The Support for Publishers component helps to ensure the sustainable production and marketing of Canadian-authored books by offsetting the high costs of publishing in Canada and building the capacity and competitiveness of the sector. The Business Development sub-component provides assistance to publishers for internship projects and business planning projects:
Internships: Publishing and technology internships provide valuable training for new Canadian book industry professionals, who in turn accomplish useful work that the firm might not otherwise have had the resources to carry out.
Business planning: Business planning projects help recipients develop strategic approaches to improving their business activities and competitiveness.
Comments on Funding:
Publishing internships: Funding up to 50% of the total eligible expenses or a maximum of $25,000.
In the case of Indigenous interns, interns from a racialized community, interns from official language minority communities or interns who are living with a disability, we can fund up to 75% of the total eligible expenses or a maximum of $37,500.
Technology internships: Funding up to 50% of the total eligible expenses or a maximum of $30,000.
In the case of Indigenous interns, interns from a racialized community, interns from official language minority communities or interns who are living with a disability, we can fund up to 75% of eligible expenses or $45,000.
Business planning: Funding up to 50% of the total eligible project-related costs or a maximum of $50,000.
In the case of Indigenous publishers, publishing companies owned and controlled by members of a racialized community or official language minority publishers, we can fund up to 75% of the total eligible expenses or $50,000.
January 31, 2025
Eligibility:
The applicants must meet the following requirements in the respective project:
1. Publishing internships
a. Individual publishing firms with total sales of own titles under $1 million that received funding from the Publishing Support sub-component of the CBF’s Support for Publishers component in 2024-2025; or
b. Individual publishing firms with total sales of own titles under $1 million that were recipients of support in the most recent funding cycle from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Supporting Artistic Practice – Literary Publishers program.
2. Technology internships
a. Individual publishing firms that received funding from the Publishing Support sub-component of the CBF’s Support for Publishers component in 2024-2025.
3. Business planning
a. Individual publishing firms that received funding from the Publishing Support sub-component of the CBF’s Support for Publishers component in 2024-2025; or
b. Individual publishing firms that received funding from the most recent funding cycle from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Supporting Artistic Practice – Literary Publishers program.
Application Steps:
Application, including all supporting documents, must be submitted electronically through the Canadian Heritage Funding Portal.
Documentation Needed:
Applicants must submit:
1. Project Plan
2. Resume of the intern (if applicable)
Other Things to Note:
About the author
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