Digitization and the Future of Canadian Publishing “Could the printed page give way to the digital screen? Will print-on-demand become a must-have technology for publishers large and small? Is it time to close the book on the book? BookNet Canada brings together publishers, thought-leaders, retailers, and technology vendors to address the impact of digitization on the future of the Canadian book trade.”

Date: Toronto, Canada -- 20 & 21 March, 2007
Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.booknetcanada.com/events/index.html

“Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965.”

“From 1997-2002 the Coach House embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented project: to put the contents of our frontlist books online for free. Led by the then Coach House Web Editor and web developer extraordinaire Damian Lopes, we amassed an impressive collection of over 70 unique online books, representing every title we published over that span.”

Toronto, ON,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.chbooks.com/

“Feature developed by Rowland Lorimer, Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser University…. This paper [HTML and PDF] was originally presented by Dr. Rowland Lorimer, of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, at the January 11, 2007 In Focus Speakers’ Series Workshop on Digital Transformations.”

Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.culturescope.ca/ev_en.php?ID=12796_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

eunoia, chapter e (for rené crevel)

a chapter from Chrisian Bök’s eunoia served deliciously at UbuWeb.

Canada
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/bok/eunoia_final.html

“Laurus Press is based in Halifax and publishes poetry e-chapbooks in PDF.”

Halifax,  Nova Scotia,  Canada
http://lauruspress.blogspot.com/

“Founded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the City of Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, ‘ottawater,’ and its chemical formula/logo ‘02(H20),’ is a poetry annual produced exclusively on-line, in both readable and printable pdf formats. An anthology focusing on Ottawa poets and poetics, its first issue appeared in January 2005, 150 years after old Bytown became the City of Ottawa.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.ottawater.com/

“Linking Canada’s Writers with Canada’s Schools…. WIER is:

• An educational initiative that focuses on Canada’s literary culture through creative literary expression and critical discussion undertaken in a writing—and written—community; and,
• An arts initiative that creates new forms of work for Canada’s writers, and audiences for their books.”

The WIER Taps (in PDF) are selections of writings from Writers in Electronic Residence from both Elementary/Intermediate classes and Secondary classes.

Canada
http://www.wier.ca/

“the editors at ebr are particularly interested in critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts.”

Check out the ebr weave on Electropoetics: “For many who are committed to working in electronic environments, an electronic ‘review’ might better be named a ‘retrospective,’ a mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. There’s a technological subtext to the declining prestige of authors and literary canons. To bring that subtext to the surface will be part of ebr’s agenda.”—Editor’s Statement

There’s an interesting call for residencies in Riga, the capital of Latvia, to work on ebr’s Electronic Text and Textiles Project.

International
http://www.electronicbookreview.com

Zadok writes: “The poems are originally written in Hebrew, but I would like them to be available to all.”

With thanks to his brother Kobbie who designed the site, to Miriam, and to his translator Amir Peleg, you can read Zadok’s poems in English in this online exclusive.

International
http://www.iamabove.com/

“Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry search engine.” Sign up for the DailyPoems email list. Site has vast collection of free poetry e-books in PDF.

Warning: pop ups!

International
http://poemhunter.com/

“There are no objects of more importance to the history of civilization than the book. Welcome to a project celebrating the book’s latest evolution, the eBook or electronic book (as opposed to the pBook or printed book).”

• Top 10 ePoems
• The Top 10 (r)Evolutionary (e)Books
• Top 10 Children’s Ebooks

McKendree College, Edwardsville, Illinois,  United States
http://faculty.mckendree.edu/william_harroff/ebe/

“John Campion is the founder of the Ecotropic movement, which holds that for human culture to be healthy it must exist as in an ecological niche and thereby re-late appropriately with all the fields of forces. His poetry art, philosophy, and criticism reflect ecotropic values.”

Learn more about Ecotropic Works, the Medusa Project and other poetry projects at World a Tuning Fork.

Oakland, California,  United States
http://worldatuningfork.com/John/

p..”The Great American Poetry Show (www.tgaps.net) is a hardcover serial poetry anthology open year-round to submissions of poems in English on any subject and in any style, length and number.” Volume 1 is also available as an ebook.

West Hollywood, California,  United States
http://www.tgaps.com/

“… acknowledged web-wide as the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry.” Among its many offerings are The UbuWeb :: Anthology of Conceptual Writing and UbuWeb : Ethnopoetics. Grok the manifesto.

United States
http://www.ubu.com/