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The Tyee launches Tyee Books

Announced today, the Tyee has launched a books section with the tag line Reading BC and Beyond. Here's what arrived in my inbox:

NOT JUST ANOTHER DEAD B.C. SCROLL

This week, The Tyee, B.C.’s thriving independent online source of news and
commentary, launches Tyee Books (www.tyeebooks.ca). The innovative,
interactive forum will showcase and discuss books from B.C. and beyond
with equal measures of innovation, provocation, humour, and intelligence.

Our goals include creating effective online sales tools for independent
B.C. independent bookstores, frequent excerpts, eclectic lists of
recommended reading, a lively conversation that brings writers and readers
together, and a blog that interprets and covers books events in B.C. and
from elsewhere.

You can read more about the site and peruse our debut week coverage at
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/06/12/TyeeBooks/

Please join us as we try and create a unique new forum for books in
British Columbia.

Charles Campbell
Tyee Books Editor

I'll be watching the Tyee Books space in the coming weeks and months to see what happens and what they cover. A Tyee Books Blog appears to be the main driving source of stories, with RSS subscription for us nerdlingers. As with the rest of the Tyee site, the writing can be a little uneven, which makes it just as good or better than the local newspapers here in Vancouver.

So, for their first day or any day, the site looks great. Congratulations go out to The Tyee team on an auspicious start to a tough and worthwhile project.