Bloomsbury reported preliminary results for the first half of 2013, with sales up 13 percent to £49.2 million and pre-tax profit up £200,000, to a still-modest £1.1 million. Sales were driven by trade hits such as Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (in the UK) and the company’s string of academic and professional publishing acquisitions. They are also the UK publisher for Jumpha Lahiri, Margaret Atwood and Colum McCann. The adult trade division had sales of £23.2 million (up 16 percent), as adjusted operating profit of £1.1 million rose 77 percent compared to a year ago. Adult digital sales were […]
