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Canada Book Fund (CBF) – Support for Publishers: Business Development | Department of Canadian Heritage

January 31, 2024

Value

Publishing internships – Up to 50% of the total eligible expenses or $15,000; Technology internships – Up to 70% of the total eligible expenses or $20,000; Business planning – Up to 50% of the total eligible project-related costs or $50,000.

Description

The Support for Publishers component of the Canada Book Fund (CBF) 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

Eligible Applicants

Publishing internships:

  • 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; or
  • 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’ Book Publishing Support: Block Grants program

Technology internships:

  • Individual publishing firms that received funding from the Publishing Support sub-component of the CBF’s Support for Publishers component

Business planning:

  • Individual publishing firms that received funding from the Publishing Support sub-component of the CBF’s Support for Publishers component; or
  • Individual publishing firms that received funding from the most recent funding cycle from the Canada Council for the Arts’ Book Publishing Support: Block Grants program

Eligible Expenses

Publishing and technology internships

  • the salary of an intern, including benefits, during the period covered by the project; and
  • professional development costs related to the training of interns who are Indigenous peoples, from a Racialized community, from an official language minority community or have a print disability, excluding travel and accommodation expenses.

Business planning

  • fees to an independent third party for research and analysis of business strategies, and the preparation and presentation of a business plan;
  • executive training related to the development of a business plan (salaries of owners, executives and employees, as well as travel and accommodation expenses, are not eligible expenses); and
  • administration fees.

Deadline Date

Your application must be submitted online by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time for a project that starts between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025.

Contact

Contact Name: Department of Canadian Heritage

Phone Number: 819-997-0055

E-mail Address: info@pch.gc.ca

Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/book-fund/business-development.html

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