The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books B.C.), in partnership with the B.C. Libraries Cooperative, has just announced the launch of the Read Local B.C. eBookshelf .

The new eBookshelf collection will feature books that are “either about B.C. , set in B.C. , or written by a B.C. author ,” according to a statement.

So far, 17 B.C. publishers are participating in the collection and have submitted 652 titles, with more ebooks to be added in the future. The collection is curated by B.C. librarians and includes a variety of categories, including award-winning and nominated books, travel beautiful B.C., children’s and YA books , and local non-fiction, the nature of B.C. and more.

All 71 B.C. public libraries are participating in the program.

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