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Publishing Scotland
Publishing Scotland is the network, trade and development body for the book publishing sector in Scotland. Publishing Scotland provide member publishers with useful current information on trade conditions, government activities and policies.
They also promote the status of publishing in Scotland at bookfairs, internationally, in New Books Scotland catalogues, and on www.booksfromscotland.com.
Publishing Scotland run a first-class skills and training programme for the sector:
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See their opportunities and jobs pages on www.publishingscotland.org
Tippermuir Books
Tippermuir Books Ltd is a book publisher based in Perth. Established in 2009, Tippermuir’s mission is to add to the cultural life of Scotland by publishing interesting and worthy books in English and Scots. The company’s strength is their love of the written word. They publish books that appeal to them and/or that they feel are important culturally, socially, and most importantly, because they are great reads. These include brilliantly successful The Tale of the Wee Mowdie by Werner Holzwarth, illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch and translated by Matthew Mackie; which was shortlisted as ‘Scots Children’s Book of the Year in 2019’, Hunters: Wee Stories from the Crescent by Anthony Camilleri (with a foreword by Stuart Cosgrove), The Nicht Afore Christmas by Irene McFarland and Rosemary Cunningham, which was shortlisted as ‘Scots Children’s Book of the Year in 2021’, and If Rivers Could Sing by Keith Broomfield, which was shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards as ‘New Book’ of the Year in November 2021 – the National Book Awards (also known as the Saltire Literary Awards) are Scotland’s most prestigious literary prizes. Previous winners of this prize include Alasdair Gray, Jackie Kay and Louise Welsh.
Hive.co.uk
Hive.co.uk is a great place to search, browse and buy books, eBooks, DVDs, CDs & vinyl. Buying your books from us means you’re supporting your independent high street shops. If you’re looking for a specific product, we can quickly tell you what’s available and how much it is. Just use our search box at the top of the page. For inspiration, browse by genre, or visit our bestselling books and find the new releases. At hive.co.uk you’ll find everything from fiction bestsellers to educational textbooks, from children’s books to movie cult classics.
The Publishing Training Centre
Whether you’re looking to enter publishing or have just started in the industry, the Publishing Training Centre (PTC) offers professional courses to help jump-start your career. Specialising in areas such as proofreading, copy-editing, editorial skills, and marketing, PTC provides practical, job-ready training delivered by experienced industry professionals.
Join the Publishing Training Centre’s mailing list today to be the first to discover discounts, industry insights and upcoming courses that will help kickstart your publishing career!
The Portobello Bookshop
An independent bookshop based in Edinburgh’s seaside community of Portobello, stocking a wide range of books across many genres.
Portobello Bookshop also run a lively events programme including book clubs, launches and workshops, providing the opportunity to attend insightful and engaging discussions about books and meet established authors.
Independent Publishers Guild
The IPG is delighted to be supporting SYP Scotland’s 2026 Conference in Edinburgh on 25 April. To find out more about the IPG and how we support independent publishers, visit our website and get in touch with the team. You might also like to consider booking a place at one of our online Short Courses in June. Dates and full details here.
Canongate
Since 1973 we’ve worked to unearth and amplify the most vital, exciting voices we can find, wherever they come from, and we’ve published all kinds of books – thoughtful, upsetting, gripping, beatific, vulgar, chaste, unrepentant, life-changing…
Along the way there have been landmarks of fiction – including Alasdair Gray’s masterpiece Lanark, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the best-ever-selling Booker winner – and non-fiction too – from Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams From My Father to Samin Nosrat’s new cookery classic Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. We’ve campaigned for causes we believe in and fought court cases to get our authors heard. And twice we’ve won Publisher of the Year.
We’re fiercely independent, and we’re as committed to unorthodox and innovative publishing as ever.
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Scotland Street Press
Scotland Street Press is a small, independent publisher of fiction, history, poetry, biography and translation based in Edinburgh. But our size and our independence give us the freedom to champion stories we believe need to be told and voices that need to be heard.
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is pleased to support the Society of Young Publishers.
Edinburgh University Press is an award-winning academic publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
We have been named as the Saltire Society’s Scottish Publisher of the Year and Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards, and shortlisted for the IPG’s Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year. Our staff have won a range of awards including the Ola Gotkowska Young Independent Publisher Award, the Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year, the ALPSP Rising Star Award, the Printing Charity’s Rising Star Award and The Bookseller Rising Star. And our books have won – and been shortlisted for – numerous awards.
