Bloomsbury issued a brief trading update on the first four months of their fiscal year, through June 30, still “in line with its expectations” for the year. Sales were up 3.7 percent with the recently-acquired IB Tauris — and 2.1 percent without two months of Tauris’s sales. The company said they had “a particularly strong result in the adult division.” Catching up on some news from June, we note that Atavist was acquired by Automattic (the owner of WordPress.com owner). The deal included Atavist’s proprietary content management system, along with digital Atavist Magazine. Automattic had acquired digital publisher Longreads in 2014. […]
