Read Aloud Canadian Books to be Wound Down as of December 31, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the Read Aloud Canadian Books program. Since it began in March 2020, we have been pleased to have helped so many educators and librarians share recorded read-alouds of Canadian stories with their students and patrons. 

The program was initially created to assist with online learning that was necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It then became a complimentary add-on to our digital licence for K-12 independent schools, public libraries and EarlyON Child and Family Centres.

With low demand for the Read Aloud licence add-on following the pandemic, the Read Aloud Canadian Books program will end as of December 31, 2025. Until then, licensees that have the Read Aloud Add-On can continue to use it to read all or part of select books from participating publishers and authors, and to post the video recording online or livestream the reading for non-commercial purposes.

Starting January 1, 2026, please contact the copyright owner(s) of the work directly to seek permission for read-aloud uses.