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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're delighted to announce a major expansion of the acclaimed Inklings collection, unveiling four new books while continuing the international rollout of the award-winning pocket-sized non-fiction list, acquired from @404ink.bsky.social Read the full announcement here: tinyurl.com/2uj57acj

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dude boasting rebellion by smoking in a venue gave me a peak 2000s TV flashback

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Walking through Edinburgh streets on the morning of September 1st

Nic Cage in Con Air looking as content as I am

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm a little disappointed that an audiobook platform "initially designed to champion the UK’s small and independent presses" is now catering to PRH, even if they do say they will continue to value indies. But going from 2k to over 70k books has me skeptical.

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

PhD research in the archives with a view (also the most climate controlled room in Edinburgh to finally escape the mugginess)

A cashbook at the National Library of Scotland with a view of Arthur's Seat in the background

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

threads is one of the most deeply anti-intellectual social media spaces I've ever been in. it's truly a baffling place.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"It wasn’t quite the best of times or the worst of times, but Scottish publishing was a turbulent place in the mid-2010s." Thanks to Alistair Braidwood and @theskinnymag.bsky.social for the lovely chat about the legacy of 404 Ink! www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/ed...

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Loud and Proud: Celebrating ten years of 404 Ink - The Skinny

After a decade of publishing, the duo behind one of Scotland's most seminal indie presses, 404 Ink, look back at an impressive career and legacy.

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How exciting to have TWO @edbookfest.bsky.social events celebrating the end of @404ink.bsky.social! 1. 22/8: 🎉 Our closing party/funeral! www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i... 2. 23/8: @heathermmcd.bsky.social & I talking about 10 years of 404 & winding down: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Come to our party and apparently see Heather and I pull the exact same tight-lipped smile and head tilt www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i...

A mock up of Laura and Heather with very similar curly hair, head tilt and smile.

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Saw a tiktok comment describe Edinburgh in August as a GTA server and it couldn't be more spot on. Feeling more and more like a run over NPC every day this month

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Come to our party and apparently see Heather and I pull the exact same tight-lipped smile and head tilt www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i...

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 30/07/2026

ScotRail's doing a new app?! You let ScotRail do a new app?!

Father Ted, Dougal's done a funeral meme

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm presenting my first ever conference paper for University of Derby! I'll be online on September 2nd, 2.30 - 4.00pm talking about ‘The Ten-year Itch: A Decade of Disruption for Small Publishers’ if anyone would like to join me and other fascinating presentations: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

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Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty

The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 28/07/2026

If you get there quickly, you can get a free PDF of this new book, on an important subject: Berens, Kathi Inman, and Rachel Noorda, How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books, Elements in Publishing and Book Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2026), doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Every email I send these days seeking information about a service that could be a brief document or email is immediately answered with a request for a meeting, EVERY. TIME. Every time, I have to follow up with 'no, just the info, please'. The info is meeting-walled. I'm too productive for this!

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Send us off in style at @edbookfest.bsky.social in Aug! 404 Ink: Ten Years of Publishing Loudly Sat 22 | 21:00 - 22:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/404-i... @laurafjones.bsky.social & @heathermmcd.bsky.social: Publisher Not Found Sun 23 | 18:30 - 19:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today I be mostly witnessing parents let their children drink water from a lake with this warning right in front of them. An interesting evening ahead for them I'm gonna guess...

Warning sign in front of a lake expressly saying to not go near the water due to algae that will make people sick

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Lawrence Sonntag @sirlarr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Good morning! What shareholder value are YOU 🫵 generating today? ☺️

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 08/07/2026

Are you a UK-based creator? Could you do with between £1 and £1000 to go towards a comic project you're working on? Do you like filling out forms? The Quindrie Comic Fund is open for applications until the end of July!! Please apply!!! I want to give you money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you @heathermmcd.bsky.social and @laurafjones.bsky.social for everything you did - @404ink.bsky.social is going to be an enormous miss on the Scottish publishing scene.

A black circular sticker that reads "I am better than everyone else because 404 Ink says so. x"

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Switching off in a few hours!

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I turn off the @404ink.bsky.social bookshop tomorrow FOREVER! It's your absolute last chance to get a book from us directly, all on sale. My final trip to the post office! www.404ink.com/shop

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Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink

Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Now I have a little car to run errands a lot more conveniently (yay) I have to also experience being overtaken in a residential 20mph zone while driving at 20mph (of course it was an SUV). Love this for me/the law/general safety

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📢ANNOUNCING: Recipients of the 404 Ink Bursary. The 404 Ink Bursary was founded to provide financial support and advice to other small, independent publishing presses. It is our final initiative ahead of our closure next month. Read more: 404ink.com/bursary

404 Ink Bursary in numbers, £5,500 give away to small presses. 844 preorders of Publisher Not Found. 39 Crowdfunder supporters. 23 small presses supported. 16 additional opportunities given to small presses. 10 sponsors and partners. 4 small press projects funded. 3 internships supported.

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Good stuff! We've been paying Inklings royalties at @404ink.bsky.social on a quarterly basis since 2021 and it seems to work 😉

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Wonky books are back for the last time! Just £3 for some of our books that have been a little battered through the distribution process but still have some life left in them yet! www.404ink.com/wonky-books

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Wonky Books — 404 Ink

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> for the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Noticing that the further I get into the PhD the less aesthetic it becomes, potentially exponentially

A coffee shop table with empty coffee cup, half filled jar of juice, a notebook and tablet showing list of articles

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don't need to expose my age by pointing out how important Neopets and Bebo and MSN messenger was to my teen years while living in a backwards town but here we are. I'm not as optimistic as the trade seems to be. Banning YouTube being particularly egregious. www.thebookseller.com/news/childre...

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Children ‘must explore opportunities offline', industry says after social media ban

Publishers, as well as the Publishers Association, have welcomed the social media ban for under-16s, but warned that it must go hand-in-hand with “encouraging children and young people to explore oppo...

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’ll be chatting with the excellent @laurafjones.bsky.social + @heathermmcd.bsky.social of @404ink.bsky.social about the pitfalls of being a small book publisher + proper ways to support culture on the margins. Join us at @edbookfest.bsky.social on 23 Aug 📚 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/laura...

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Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

MEGA SALE: ALL books are £5 on our website until we close the shop on Tuesday 30th June (or we sell out!). Help us have a great send off: www.404ink.com/shop

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Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink

Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 09/06/2026

This coming Saturday is an evening with, well, us! Join the Charco team at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh as we chat all things writing, translating and publishing: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/an-ev...

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An Evening with Charco Press at The Portobello Bookshop

Please come and join us for An Evening with Charco Press on 13th June, at The Portobello Bookshop

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

REMINDER: scammers are targeting translators using my name, pretending to be "head of talent" at Charco Press to get work. Some have fallen for the scams so to reiterate: - I do not approach translators on behalf of Charco. I am Operations Manager at Charco only. - Do not reply to such approaches!

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

working on this book chapter & completely absorbed in the question of when precisely the meaning of "small press" changed from referring to a piece of publishing technology--"she set up a small press"--to a category of publishing--"she is a small press publisher." it seems like the early 1950s...

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you'd like to get involved by contributing a canapdote or two, there's still time! Please see more details of how over here, or drop us a line: ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/t... #canaperesearch 2/

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The Social Life of Canapés

The Social Life of Canapés, a project conducted by Beth Driscoll (University of Melbourne) and Claire Squires (University of Stirling), focuses on an intentionally insubstantial foodstuff – t…

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ebooks disappear TOMORROW! Last, last chance!

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A heads up that there are scam emails going around impersonating me seeking author submissions for Charco Press. I do not acquire books for any publishers and the only legit email address from us ends with charcopress.com Please don't reply to any emails that don't feel right!

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another one! From a different person! These are AI, right? It'd be a waste of time for me to edit the Craft screenshot to send to them, yes?

An invite on LinkedIn to connect to stop using expensive freelancers

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Looks freezing, am absolutely sweltering

Calton hill cemetery with Arthur's seat in the background

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Also begging poets to stop formatting poems strictly to A4 size before sending to typeset. How many A4 size poetry books do you see and buy, huh? HUH?!?!

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