State of Independents

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Predictions for 2010 – well one at any rate.

On Monday I shall be on BBC Radio Scotland’s Book Cafe programme (ooh – get me!) and one of the things they apparently want me to have an opinion on is what bookish trend we’ll see in 2010.  I think they mean in terms of books that are published in which case I hope to [...]

Classy, really classy, Waterstone’s

This morning, savouring our Christmas break but still committed workaholics, Andrew and I met at Brown’s on George Street to spend a very pleasant hour or two over tea and toast making plans for bookshop events and choosing titles for our Book of the Week and Book of the Month promotions (the only titles we [...]

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Welcome to State of Independents. I'm Vanessa Robertson. I live in Edinburgh and my husband and I run a tiny publishing house. We also used to own the award-winning Edinburgh Bookshop. This is where I write about the book trade as I see it and I'm not always as diplomatic as I should be...

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