DEMOS has put The Independents: Britain’s new cultural entrepreneurs online as a free PDF. It’s a little dated now (1999), but should still be on the reading-list of those learning about the creative industries in the UK.

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by Wishful Thinking » Blog Archive » Free PDF of The Independents by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
07 Aug 2007 at 10:42
[…] Thanks to D’log for highlighting Demos’ publication of a free PDF of The Independents by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley. I read the printed version a while ago and was impressed by the way it captures both the spirit of creative freelancers and microbusinesses and their larger economic significance within the UK creative industries. […]