Publishing house Bloomsbury acquires Wisden

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC announced Friday it had acquired John Wisden & Co., publisher of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

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The American arm of world-renowned Bloomsbury Publishing has found itself at the centre of a controversy over the "whitewashing" of the cover of one of its author's books.

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Sir John Sulston, Nobel prize winner and one of the architects of the Human Genome Project, has teamed up with Bloomsbury to edit a new series of books that will look at topics including the ethics of genetics and the cyber enhancement of humans. The series will be the first fro …

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An online price war between Amazon and some of the UK's largest publishers is expected. Penguin, Bloomsbury and other publishers are discounting books on their websites encouraging customers to buy direct from the publisher rather than use an online retailer.

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Influences strange and Mr. Norrell

It is most curious, but I am starting to wonder whether the writing style so characteristic of Susanna Clarke's epic tale of gentleman magicians in the 19th Century, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" (Bloomsbury 2004), might not be starting to have an extraordinary effect on me.

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Supermarket chain Asda faces the prospect of disappointing half a million Harry Potter fans unless it can resolve a row with Bloomsbury.

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THE publishers of Harry Potter are set to mount a huge security operation ahead of the arrival of the final book in the series.

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Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury today laid out its plans for life after the boy wizard as it revealed that profits dropped almost 75% without the character's magic in 2006.

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