From macnn:
The Ministry of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages has granted formal approval to the Canadian iBookstore, opening the door to a flood of new content from Canadian publishers and authors. While the iBookstore has already been operating and offering some — mostly US-based — paid titles along with the usual assortment of free public-domain and PDF texts, the approval is expected to boost both the offerings available to Canadian iOS device owners as well as help promote Canadian works in other countries.
In exchange for the official blessing, Apple has committed to featuring Canadian-authored books in both official languages, increasing access to First Nations works, assisting Canadian publishers in streamlining the process of converting books into e-books, and doing more to tailor the existing Canadian iBookstore to the tastes of Canadian readers.
ok let’s hope we see the great canadian catalog come available: robertson davies, howard engel, laurence gough, norman levine, mordecai richler, etc., etc. …