Scottish Publishers Association

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The Scottish Publishers Association (SPA), established in 1973 as the Scottish General Publishers Association with the support of the Scottish Arts Council, is the trade association of nearly 80 publishing companies in Scotland. Its members are principally book and academic publishers, local authority libraries and public bodies.

On behalf of its members, the SPA attends trade fairs throughout Europe; co-ordinates bookshop and library promotions, and other marketing initiatives; runs training courses and seminars; and implements joint research projects and surveys with organisations such as the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Enterprise. It runs its own library and publishes the Directory of Publishing in Scotland annually.

The SPA is the majority shareholder in BookSource, a warehousing and worldwide distribution service for trade publishers, charities and other commercial enterprises.

The SPA is based in Edinburgh, and its director is Lorraine Fannin, a trustee of the National Library of Scotland and of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature.

As the compiler of the official Scottish bestseller list, the SPA has come under criticism for the accuracy of this list. In an exposé about a book reaching number four in the list with no sales according to Nielsen BookData, The Sunday Times described the SPA bestseller list at that time as "a sham."^[1]

1 Members
2 Reference
3 See also
4 External links

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Acair Ltd
Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
Atelier Books
Barrington Stoke Ltd
Birlinn Ltd
Black and White Publishing
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd
Brown & Whittaker Publishing
Canongate Books
Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd
Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
CILIPS (formerly the Scottish Library Association)
Continuing Education Gateway
Cualann Press
Dundee Central Library, School Library Service, Dundee City Council
Dunedin Academic Press
Edinburgh City Libraries, Department of Culture & Leisure, City of Edinburgh Council
Edinburgh University Press
Floris Books
Fort Publishing Ltd
Gallus Publications
Geddes & Grosset Ltd
Glasgow City Libraries Publications
Glasgow Museums
Goblinshead
GW Publishing
HarperCollins Publishers
Hodder Gibson
Hodder Headline Scotland
House of Lochar
Leckie & Leckie Publishers
Lipstick Publishing
Luath Press Ltd
Mainstream Publishing Ltd
Mercat Press
National Archives of Scotland
National Galleries of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
NMS Enterprises Limited - Publishing (National Museums of Scotland)
Penguin Scotland
Perth & Kinross Libraries
Pocket Mountains Ltd.
The Rutland Press
Saint Andrew Press
The Saltire Society
Sandstone Press Ltd
Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Text Society
SCRAN
The Shetland Times Ltd
sportscotland
West Dunbartonshire Libraries and Museums
W Green
Whittles Publishing Ltd