Publisher to double dividend after demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha ShannonBusiness live – latest updatesThe book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fiction driven by the American author Sarah J Maas, the British novelist Samantha Shannon and the continuing popularity of Harry Potter.The London-based publishing house said profits rose 11% to £17.7m in the six months to August, compared with a year earlier, prompting the company to announce it would more than double its half-year payout for shareholders. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-10-26 07:50:43 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#year earlier
#continuing popularity
#harry potter
#american author
#book publisher
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 14/04/2011 - 09:57 Like for like book sales at W H Smith have fallen by 3% in a "soft" market as the retailer reported a 3% increase in profits to £64m. In its interim management statement, for the six months to 28th February, the group's sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book market
#childrens books
#book sales
#retailer reported
#3% increase
#28th february
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 14/04/2011 - 09:21 Profits at HarperCollins surged £25.3m due to "exceptional rights income" in its most recent set of financial results filed at Companies House. For the year ending 30th June, operating profit increased to £29.1m. Turnover was... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profits surge
#international sales
#companies house
#canadian markets
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 07/04/2011 - 09:01 Angry Robot has made two fantasy fiction acquisitions, one a swashbuckling adventure and the other set in Elizabethan England. Both deals were signed by publishing director Marc Gascoigne for world English rights for physical,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fantasy fiction
#swashbuckling adventure
#elizabethan england
#audio editions
#zeno agency
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 06/04/2011 - 14:58 Penguin group chief executive John Makinson took home £1.5m in pay in 2010, in a year when Penguin's sales grew 21% to £1.1bn and adjusted operating profit grew 19% to £106m. Makinson's pay rose by £150,000 thanks to a rise in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profit grows
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 09:38 Profits surged to £7.5m at Quercus last year, as the independent announced HarperCollins publishing director Susan Watt is to set up a new imprint called Heron Books. In its financial results for the year to 31st December,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profits surge
#financial results
#millennium trilogy
#nielsen bookscan
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 09:39 The struggling HMV Group has bought more time to pass covenant tests while issuing a third profit warning. The group, which owns Waterstone's, said "trading conditions have remained difficult" since it issued its last profit... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#profit warning
#hmv issues
#trading conditions
#remained difficult
#month ago
With Random House reporting its results for 2010 last week, all five of the country's largest trade houses have now turned in their operating performances for last year. And those performances are encouraging, especially for an industry in the midst of a historic transition from print to... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 01/04/2011 - 08:25 Bloomsbury has acquired world rights, following a "heated" five-way auction, to A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgari by debut novelist Suzanne Joinson. Editorial director Helen Garnons-Williams bought the novel in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bloomsbury acquires
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Wed, 30/03/2011 - 09:15 Three authors from the UK have made it onto the list of finalists for the Man Booker International Prize 2011. James Kelman, Philip Pullman and John le Carré have joined the list of 13 for the biennial £60,000 award, which... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#philip pullman
#james kelman
Written By: Katie Allen Publication Date: Mon, 28/03/2011 - 15:31 Profit before tax at Jonathan Goodman Publishing, the parent company of Carlton Books Ltd and Andre Deutsch Ltd, has increased by 72% to £1.6m. The figures, for the year to end December 2010, also show turnover is up 6% to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#carlton books
#good year
#andre deutsch
Publication Date: Fri, 25/03/2011 - 08:44 Profit before tax at Jonathan Goodman Publishing, the parent company of Carlton Books Ltd and Andre Deutsch Ltd, has increased by 72% to £1.6m. The figures, for the year to end December 2010, also show that turnover is up 6% to £15.8m. In a statement,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#international sales
#carlton books
#andre deutsch
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 24/03/2011 - 08:34 Bloomsbury's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3,000 BC to Cleopatra has won this year's £3,000 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. Written by Toby Wilkinson, the book was commended by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ancient egypt
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 18/03/2011 - 10:18 Bloomsbury has bought a novel about a boy trapped in a collapsed building in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. In Darkness by Nick Lake, children's editorial director at HarperCollins, will be published in both adult... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nick lake
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 09/03/2011 - 14:49 Profits at Anova have increased by almost 300% to £640,000 in 2010, according to provisional figures released by the independent publisher. The figures, for the year to end February 2011, are subject to audit and showed... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#independent publisher
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 08/03/2011 - 08:49 The Independent Publishers Guild Conference will be attended by 265 delegates this year, more than any other year previously, and marking an 18% rise in attendance on last year. The conference runs from tomorrow [9th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#record attendance
#dominic myers
#sam husain
#patrick neale
#thursday afternoon
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 07/03/2011 - 15:05 The Big Green Bookshop has raised nearly half of its fundraising target to secure its future at the beginning of its appeal week. Owners of the London independent bookshop, Simon Key and Tim West, appealed to 1,000 loyalty... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fundraising target
#simon key
#tim west
#extra book
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 01/03/2011 - 09:28 The HMV Group has issued its second profit warning of the year and will breach a bank covenant test when it announces full year results in April. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hmv issues
#profit warning
#hmv group
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 28/02/2011 - 09:20 Bloomsbury is anticipating 2011 to be the "year of the ebook", as it reported ebook sales were just under 10% of trade print sales in its latest results. For the 12 months ending 31st December 2010, sales were up 4.01%... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#latest results
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 28/02/2011 - 16:12 Strong sales in its UK campus stores have helped John Smith & Son to report a sales increase of 3.1% in its latest trading results. The academic and specialist bookseller reported sales were up from £39.3m to £40.5m for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sales increase
#total sales
#john smith
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 28/02/2011 - 09:42 Penguin UK had its best ever year in 2010 as parent company Pearson reported a profits increase of 21% to £857m. For the year ending 31st December, sales at Pearson were £5.66bn, up 10% on 2009. Sales at Penguin were... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#pearson attributed
#record number