The Wee Blue Book

The Wee Blue Book is a publication created to advance the "Yes" argument in the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. It was written by Stuart Campbell of the pro-independence website Wings Over Scotland.

The 72-page book was published as a digital edition on 11 August 2014, and 300,000 copies were subsequently printed, using money collected in an Indiegogo online fundraising campaign, and distributed across Scotland from the first week of September. Within a month, the digital edition had been downloaded 550,000 times. It was also released as an audiobook and narrated video, translated into Gaelic and turned into a standalone website.

The book also commented on the constitutional status of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. The book was described by Spanish news website ABC.es as "Salmond's secret weapon", referring to Alex Salmond. At the end of 2014, some commentators named The Wee Blue Book among their favourite books of the year: author Chris Dolan described it as "iconic" in the Herald, and in The Scotsman journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch made it her top pick for its "portability and sheer audacity".

Subsequent political campaigns have imitated the Wee Blue Book. The MEP group of the Scottish National Party published a similar document - The Wee Bleu Book - for the EU referendum campaign, and the movement for independence for the US state of California (which also appropriated some graphics from Yes Scotland) produced The Calexit Blue Book.

The book was followed in 2016 by The Wee Black Book, a record of events since the independence referendum. The Wee Black Book was distributed as a free download and in a print edition on a paid-for basis, the latter of which sold over 38,000 copies in the two months after its release.