State of Independents

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An Education

[Advance warning: rant ahead...]
Since early February I have been organising the Scottish book launch for a new title by an award-winning and very popular author who writes books for teenagers. It’s going to be a schools event and when the publisher phoned us up to talk about it we were extremely excited. We were asked [...]

Entitlement

Most of our customers are a pleasure to chat to; I would even go out for a glass of wine with quite a few of them. However, Vanessa and I have both commented recently that there are a few customers you want to take aside and point out that they have just been quite rude [...]

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Welcome to State of Independents. We're booksellers and publishers based in Edinburgh and this is where we'll be writing about the book trade as we see it. We write about what's going on in our businesses over at The Fidra Blog but over here we'll be expressing opinions from the independent of mind.

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