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

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...

Publishing for All in an Age of UncertaintyThe 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...www.derby.ac.uk

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...

How Gen Z Discover and Consume BooksCambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - How Gen Z Discover and Consume Booksdoi.org

Nice news following our closure 🙂

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Let me do my job without needing small talk! Let me tick a task off my list instead of making it bigger with extra delays! gaaaaaaaaaaaah

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!

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...

Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festivalno descriptionwww.edbookfest.co.uk

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...

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

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for being part of it!

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.

No wonder I'm knackered

Switching off in a few hours!

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...

Laura Jones-Rivera & Heather McDaid: Publisher Not Found | Edinburgh International Book Festivalno descriptionwww.edbookfest.co.uk

Greatly appreciated!

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

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

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

📢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