Bloomsbury acquires US academic publisher ABC-CLIO in £17.3m deal

Bloomsbury has acquired California-based academic publisher ABC-CLIO in a $22.9m (£17.3m) deal, expanding its academic and digital publishing presence in North America. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 16:09:02 UTC ]

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Fastest-Growing Companies 2020: #18 Audience Synergy LLC

Audience Synergy LLC provides digital publishing and advertising tools to reach physicians and nurses. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-11-14 02:38:07 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to repay staff £700K in pandemic wage cuts

Bloomsbury has announced it will repay almost £700,000 to staff who took a pay cut during the first months of the pandemic, following the publisher's most succesful interim results since 2008. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-03 08:01:03 UTC ]
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Irrational numbers

As I mentioned during the summer Bloomsbury has become something of a bellwether publisher for the sector, being the only big trade publisher releasing regular UK-specific financial reports. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 14:54:02 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to publish companion to Natural History Museum's Fantastic Beasts exhibition

Bloomsbury is to publish the "definitive" companion book to accompany the Natural History Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature", in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pottermore Publishing will publish the e-book.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 15:33:33 UTC ]
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Harry Potter publisher says Covid has weaved magic over book sales

After shaky start in lockdown, Bloomsbury sales soar as people pick books over box setsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Harry Potter publisher, Bloomsbury, has reported its most profitable first half in more than a decade, after a nation tiring of box sets fuelled... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-10-27 12:22:12 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Posts Double-Digit Gains in First Half of Fiscal 2021

A 55% increase in digital sales plus higher online revenue led to a 10% increase in sales while pre-tax profits more than doubled at Bloomsbury in the six-month period ended August 31, 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Online sales push Bloomsbury to best first-half since 2008

Bloomsbury Publishing has delivered its highest first half earnings since 2008, as "signficantly higher” online book sales and e-book revenues led to year-on-year profit growth of 60% to £4m in the six months ended 31st August 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 15:50:49 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins auction for Buoro's 'astonishing' debut

Bloomsbury has secured 27-year-old novelist and mathematician Stephen Buoro's debut novel, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 13:01:22 UTC ]
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Celaya on the boom in audio content in Spanish-speaking markets

Javier Celaya is the founder and c.e.o. of Dosdoce.com, a member of the executive board of the Digital Economy Association of Spain, as well as head of institutional relations at the Spanish Digital Publishing Association (Aselid). He talks to Tom Tivnan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-14 01:37:55 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury lands Luke Cassidy's 'gritty' debut novel

Bloomsbury is to publish Iron Annie by debut author Luke Cassidy, secured in a two-book deal.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 22:22:54 UTC ]
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Why advertisers are leaning into digital publishing strategies

Ashley Deibert, CMO, Piano The world of digital advertising is undergoing a paradigm shift. Even before Google pulls the final plug on third-party cookies in 2022, brands will be challenged to rethink their targeting and ad strategies. The demise of third-party cookies promises to accelerate the... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2020-10-08 01:00:00 UTC ]
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Artist Duncan Grant erotic drawings kept under bed 'worth £2m'

A massive haul of drawings by Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant is finally made public. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2020-10-07 23:12:12 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins Joe Biden biography

Bloomsbury is to publish a biography of US presidential candidate Joe Biden by Evan Osnos later this month.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 21:38:55 UTC ]
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China’s Digital Publishing Innovation Forum : ‘Digital Inheritance’

At a conference in Beijing, publishers are asked to consider how their content could be reformmated for popular digital distribution systems. The post China’s Digital Publishing Innovation Forum : ‘Digital Inheritance’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-16 18:21:48 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins auction for Lockwood's 'miraculous' debut novel

Bloomsbury is to publish Patricia Lockwood's first novel No One Is Talking About This, after winning a 10-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 02:57:52 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Caravel to publish Portraits for NHS Heroes

Bloomsbury Caravel, in partnership with NHS Charities Together, is publishing Portraits for NHS Heroes this November after the success of artist Tom Croft’s #PortraitsForNHSHeroes project.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 23:35:46 UTC ]
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Authors walk out on Bloomsbury India following book cancellation

A number of authors have withdrawn their books from Bloomsbury India, after the publishing house pulled Monika Arora's Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story, scheduled for publication this autumn.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 02:21:19 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children's scoops Clare Weze's 'brilliant' debut

Bloomsbury Children's Books is to publish middle-grade adventure Alfie Miller, Lightning Catcher by debut author Clare Weze.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-19 13:19:12 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury steals Alam's 'electrifying' race, class and climate change novel

Bloomsbury has won a seven-way auction to secure Rumaan Alam's "unnerving" novel, Leave the World Behind, deciding to "crash" the book into its autumn schedule. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 06:57:56 UTC ]
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Dead Ink and Bloomsbury showcase Northern literary talent in new anthology

Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury are publishing Test Signal, a "ground-breaking" anthology of the best contemporary Northern writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-04 18:01:19 UTC ]
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