Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord

What Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord does

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord is a private, Quebec-based literary and visual arts publishing house founded in 1983 and headquartered in Trois-Rivières, Québec. The company operates a thematic journal (the Sabord) published three times per year, now in its 133rd issue ("conversions," May 2026), with each issue integrating literary texts—prose, poetry, essays, interviews—with contemporary visual art portfolios curated around a single thematic concept. The publisher has also released over 135 books spanning poetry collections, novels, and artist books. The core user base comprises Quebec writers and visual artists (primary supply side) and individual readers, students, libraries, and institutional subscribers (demand side), with international subscribers addressed via a distinct pricing tier.

Commercially, the company sells print issues at $16.95 CAD and PDF issues at $8.00 CAD through a direct-to-consumer e-commerce website (lesabord.qc.ca), alongside 1-year and 2-year subscriptions priced between $35 and $152 CAD depending on category (regular, student, institutional, international). The e-commerce site, newsletter system, and periodic open calls for submissions ("appels et prix") form the go-to-market mechanism. A small in-house team of roughly six people—led by an interim general director, artistic director, and literary director, governed by a six-member board—executes editorial, design, website programming, and outreach functions.

The operating model is hybrid: commercial sales of issues, books, and subscriptions are supplemented by core public funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), the Ville de Trois-Rivières, and Canadian Heritage. This arts-grant dependence makes the publisher more like a publicly supported cultural institution than a venture-scale business, with limited scale and a stable, niche footprint.

Name

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord

Legal name

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord

Website

https://lesabord.qc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord is a Quebec-based literary and visual arts publishing house founded in 1983, producing a thematic journal (133 issues) and over 135 books, serving Quebec writers, visual artists, and individual/institutional readers via direct e-commerce and public arts funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Literary and Visual Arts Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312), Book Publishers (51313)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJAEAN

Arts, Culture & Literary Magazines

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Magazine Publishing (Consumer & B2B/Trade Magazines)

Keywords

• Literary journal publishing
• Visual arts publications
• Poetry and fiction books
• Magazine subscriptions
• Quebec cultural publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Trois-Rivières

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Magazine/Revue Sales: Sale of individual issues of the Sabord literary-art journal in print (paper) and digital (PDF) formats. Print issues priced at $16.95 CAD, PDF issues at $8.00 CAD.
2. Book Sales: Sale of published books including poetry collections, novels, and artist books through the company's e-commerce platform.
3. Subscriptions: Annual and biennial subscriptions to the Sabord journal providing 3 or 6 issues respectively. Multiple tiers for regular, student, institutional, and international subscribers.

Pricing tiers

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord publishes a themed literary and visual arts journal (the Sabord / Revues Sabord) three times per year in both print and PDF formats, alongside a catalog of more than 135 books spanning poetry, novels, and artist books. The publisher offers tiered 1-year and 2-year subscriptions for individual, student, institutional, and international readers, and operates an open submission policy that invites writers and visual artists to contribute to upcoming themed issues.

Product overview

Les Éditions d'art Le Sabord is a Quebec-based art publishing house specializing in literary and visual arts publications. The company operates three core offerings: the Sabord journal (revues) featuring themed issues with literary texts and visual art portfolios, published books (livres) including poetry and artist books, and subscription services. The journal, now in its 133rd issue, combines literary creation with contemporary visual arts through regular and special themed editions published three times yearly.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Products and services

• Revues Sabord Themed literary and visual arts journal published three times per year, each issue exploring a single concept through literary texts, visual art portfolios, interviews, and critical essays by Quebec and Canadian authors and artists. Available in print ($16.95 CAD) and PDF ($8.00 CAD) formats.
• Livres Books published by Le Sabord, including poetry collections, novels, and artist books that combine literary writing with visual art, sold individually through the publisher's e-commerce platform.
• Abonnement Subscription service to the Sabord journal, providing 3 issues per year (1-year) or 6 issues (2-year), available in regular, student, institutional, and international tiers priced at $40–$152 CAD.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Éditions du Noroît: Quebec-based poetry and visual arts publisher. Comparable in its interdisciplinary integration of literary creation and visual arts, Quebec cultural-policy funding model, and small-team modest-scale operations, though it leans more heavily toward poetry collections than journals.
• Les Herbes rouges: Long-established independent Quebec literary press publishing poetry, fiction, and essays. Comparable as a Quebec nonprofit literary publisher with similar grant-dependence, editorial philosophy, and catalog scale, though focused on books rather than a recurring journal.
• esse arts + opinions: Quebec-based bilingual magazine publishing contemporary art criticism, essays, and artist features. Directly comparable as a small Quebec arts publication that combines critical writing with visual arts content, though focused on art rather than Sabord's literary+visual hybrid.
• Moebius (revue): Quebec literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and essays. Comparable as a long-running Quebec literary magazine with a recurring publication schedule and grant-supported model, though focused on literary texts without Sabord's visual-arts component.
• L'Inconvénient: Quebec literary magazine publishing essays, fiction, and criticism grounded in Quebec intellectual culture. Comparable as a small Quebec literary periodical with a recurrent publication model and a similar Francophone readership, though without the visual-arts integration.
• XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle: Quebec literary magazine dedicated to the short-fiction form. Comparable as a long-running Quebec literary periodical with a recurring publication schedule, grant support, and similar small-team operations, though focused on a single literary genre rather than interdisciplinary literary-visual content.
• Spirale magazine: Quebec contemporary arts and culture magazine publishing critical essays on visual arts, literature, and culture. Comparable in subject overlap (Quebec literary and visual arts critical writing) and scale, though presented in a more critical-review format versus Sabord's creative-writer format.

Broad incumbents

• Leméac Éditeur: One of Quebec's largest independent French-language literary publishers, with a broader catalog across fiction, essays, drama, and poetry. Comparable as a Quebec literary publisher, but considerably larger and more commercially diversified than Le Sabord.
• Éditions Boréal: Major Quebec literary publisher with a broad catalog across fiction, essays, history, and literary criticism. Comparable as a Quebec literary publisher operating under similar cultural-policy funding dynamics, but at substantially larger scale and broader commercial positioning.

Regional players

• Prise de parole: Franco-Ontarian literary publisher based in Sudbury, Ontario. Comparable as a small Francophone Canadian literary publisher with a similar grant-funded operating model and catalog scale, though serving a regional Franco-Ontarian rather than Quebec-centric community.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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