Bloomsbury reported results for the first half of their fiscal year, ending August 31, with sales rising £10 million to £62.7 million, though adjusted profit fell to £1.5 million down £.5 million), blamed on the ending of their contract for publishing services with the Qatar Foundation. As in the previous fiscal year, Harry Potter continues to drive Bloomsbury’s results: Essentially all of the gain in sales came trade publishing, which comprised £37.3 million, and most of that from children’s books, particularly the Harry Potter Box Set and the Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (plus Sarah Maas’s A Court of Mist and Fury). The non-consumer division […]
