Sales, Earnings Up at Bloomsbury in Fiscal 2019

Strong revenue gains in the U.K. publisher's academic and professional division offset declines in its children's trade group. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Dragon Tattoo hits 2m UK sales

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 13/07/2011 - 15:38 Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Quercus), the first book in the late Swedish journalist's Millennium thriller trilogy, has become only the sixth adult novel to sell more than two million copies since records... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fathers Day fails to boost June book sales - BRC

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 12/07/2011 - 09:37 Widespread offers and Fathers Day failed to affect book sales falling in June compared to 2010, according to the British Retail Consortium. Figures out today show total sales in the UK were up 1.5% last month in comparison to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury buys Continuum

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 11/07/2011 - 09:04 Bloomsbury has bought academic publisher Continuum in a deal worth £20.1m. The publisher described the buy, its sixth in the academic and professional field during the past five years, as "transformational" and said it would... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Economy "toughest for decades" says Bloomsbury

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 11/07/2011 - 09:00 The consumer economy is the toughest it has been for decades, said Bloomsbury, with curtailed orders in retailers like Waterstone's. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print book sales decline in first half of 2011

Written By: Charlotte Williams and Philip Stone Publication Date: Fri, 08/07/2011 - 09:55 Print sales across the book market have dropped by 3% in the first six months of 2011, compared to the same period last year, with Jamie Oliver the bestselling author over the period, ahead of Julia... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WHS sales drop 4% like-for-like

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 07/07/2011 - 09:02 WH Smiths like-for-like sales have dropped 4%, but the bookseller remains "confident" about its final year results, it said today. In the 18 weeks to 2nd July, WHS total group sales decreased by 1% and like-for-like sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Academic sales decline in first six months

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 07/07/2011 - 14:31 Sales of print books in the academic, specialist and higher education publishing market have slumped in the first half of the year, with one publisher seeing a decline of 22% in print sales. But academic publishers pointed to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fool's tale to Bloomsbury

Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 14:43 Bloomsbury fiction editorial director Helen Garnons-Williams has bought world rights in a wildly original, devastating and funny debut novel, The Gamal by Ciarán Collins. The tale is narrated by Charlie, the gamal -... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dawn retains top spot but fiction sales slump on 2010

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 16:04 Dawn Frenchs début novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Penguin), retains its position at the summit of The Official UK Top 50 week-on-week, thanks to a promotional appearance on ITVs This Morning, and a £2.99 if you spend £10... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Borders US agrees sale to Najafi

Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Fri, 01/07/2011 - 09:13 Borders in the US has agreed to sell to private investment firm Najafi for $215m (£135m), it has been announced today. The Borders Group bookselling chain is now seeking bankruptcy court approval for the agreement, which if... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crossan writes three YA titles for Bloomsbury

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 30/06/2011 - 15:01 Bloomsbury has acquired three YA books by Irish author, Sarah Crossan. Senior commissioning editor Ele Fountain acquired the trio of titles through Julia Churchill at Greenhouse, with the first title, Breathe, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profit up at Waterstone's despite sales dip

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Self-published author hits one million Kindle sales

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 20/06/2011 - 14:31 John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million ebooks through Amazon. The author used Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heston to go "domestic" for Bloomsbury

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 10/06/2011 - 08:22 Fat Duck chef and kitchen wizard Heston Blumenthal's latest title from Bloomsbury, which is due to be published on 3rd October, will aim to transfer his technical talents into the home, with editor Richard Atkinson... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Grisham top as children's book sales soar

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 15:44 Thanks in part to a "better than half price" deal at Waterstone's, John Grisham tops the Official UK Top 50 for the first time in five and a half years. The Confession (Arrow), the Arkansas-born legal thriller writer's 23rd... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Room leads Amazon Orange sales race

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 07/06/2011 - 11:40 Amazon.co.uk has announced that Orange Prize shortlisted author Emma Donoghues Room (Picador) is leading sales on the website ahead of rival contenders for the award. The Orange Prize for Fiction is revealed tomorrow (8th... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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People Wins Four min Sales Executive of the Year Awards

People is the most profitable U.S. magazine and had an excellent, +5.6% ad-page advertising 2010, so it was appropriate that the magazine did very well at min's seventh "Sales Executive of the Year" awards breakfast Thursday morning (June 2) at New York's Grand Hyatt. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac digital sales worth 8% in first quarter

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 01/06/2011 - 09:52 E-book sales accounted for over 8% of Pan Macmillan's trade sales in the first quarter of 2011, with the publisher predicting a rise to up to 10% by the end of the year. Over the same period, the publisher's sales of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alex Best in "legal claim" against Bloomsbury

Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 31/05/2011 - 09:00 Football star George Best's widow, Alex Best, has made a legal claim against Bloomsbury surrounding the veracity of journalist Celia Walden's book, Babysitting George. The Observer reports Best's former mistress, Gina... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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