Allen Crawford ("Lord Whimsy"), a writer and editor for the paper, stated that his own "unapologetically pompous and florid" writing style found a regular place in the paper. Issues cost $1 inside of Philadelphia and $2 elsewhere. Distributed in various retail locations as well as in wildly painted newspaper boxes throughout downtown Philadelphia. "The Independent" was sold in at least 60 stores and restaurants in Philadelphia including the Weavers Way (co-op), Wooden Shoe Books, and Reading Terminal Market. Outside of the city, the paper was sold at locations in Doylestown, New Hope, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Portland. In issue 21, released in March 2005, the Editors announced a temporary but possibly permanent : "We may start up again one day, and if we do, we promise our second volume will be even better than our first. But the first volume may turn out to be it for the Independent, in which case we ask only that you keep a place for us, in your desk or on your shelf." On March 19, 2006, former Editor and Publisher Mattathias Schwartz used The Pigeon, "The Independent"'s "eMailing List" to inform former readers of the Crier, a new publication based out of New York City, partly edited by Christine Smallwood, a former staff writer for "the Independent".