Ms. Aline Côté at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On April 15th, 2010. See this statement in context.

April 15th, 2010 / 11:55 a.m.

President of copyright and Editor, Association nationale des éditeurs de livres

I believe that we have received $50,000 from the Canada Book Fund for the launching of the aggregator. There are also some subsidies to help the publishers to update their knowledge of the digital world.

However, what has been lacking—and which Quebec is presently providing us through SODEC—is a direct subsidy for the production of digitized books. The Quebec subsidy allows us to accelerate significantly the production of digitized books from all our publishers.

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