Books BC Friend Application

Books BC invites you to sign up for a Friend membership for $210/year by completing this form. The information you provide in this form will be used for invoicing membership fees, and will appear on our website unless otherwise indicated.

Get involved with your regional independent publishing industry by becoming a Friend of the Association of Books Publishers of BC (Books BC).

Friends may include suppliers, industry associations, book marketers, editors, printers, publishing educators or publishers who are not eligible for membership.

Friends of Books BC receive our monthly industry newsletter, access to publishing roundtables, preferred rates on services and professional development sessions, placement in Read Local BC's literary events calendar, and more.

If the Friends are publishers with their head office in BC, their ISBNs may be registered with The BookManager for the BC Bestseller List. They may also participate in book displays and conferences where space is available. If the Friends are publishers with a head office in BC or are Canadian publishers and ACP members whose head offices are in another province, they may participate in certain specialty catalogues and Poetry in Transit at non-member rates. Publisher Friends also benefit from the lobbying activities and awareness campaigns undertaken by Books BC. If Friends are umbrella organizations representing a number of publishers or self-publishers, those publishers may not access Books BC projects unless they become members. If Friends become eligible for Books BC membership, they must do so in order to access Books BC services and benefits.