The Wee Blue Book was a multi-format publication published in 2014 and written by Stuart Campbell, editor of pro-independence blog Wings Over Scotland.
The printed book was notable in the campaign for being created and published through crowdfunding, then being distributed by volunteers to locations where they could be picked up for free by the general public.
The 72-page A6-sized book was originally produced as a downloadable version following an initial crowdfunding exercise in March 2014, with it being published as a digital edition on 11 August 2014.
[1] 300,000 copies[2] were subsequently printed, using money collected in an Indiegogo online fundraising campaign which raised almost £60,000[3] and distributed across Scotland from the first week of September.
The English economist and blogger Simon Wren-Lewis wrote of the book’s analysis “[t]he arguments in the Wee Blue Book are exactly that: no sustained economic argument, but just a collection of random quotes and debating points to make a problem go away.”[11] Conversely, it was described by Spanish news website ABC.es as "[Alex] Salmond's secret weapon".