The Edinburgh International Book Festival is to scale back its programme to weather “highly challenging” times amid the current economic climate and the impact of the pandemic.
Festival chiefs also plan to drop live streaming of events after seeing income this year 40% down on 2019; the last time a full-scale festival took place.
They hope to reduce costs by about 25% and have begun redundancy talks with the 32 full-time staff at the festival, which will mark its 40th anniversary next year.
