Bloomsbury 捜し出すs more Potter 魔法

By Nick Goodway for MailOnline
Updated: 00:00 BST, 20 March 2003

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PUBLISHER Bloomsbury has 明かすd another strong rise in sales and 利益（をあげる）s, にもかかわらず last year 存在 the first in the past five in which it did not 開始する，打ち上げる a new Harry Potter 調書をとる／予約する by best-selling author JK Rowling.

Potter （麻薬）常用者s must wa it another 92 days until 21 June for the 世界的な 開始する，打ち上げる of the fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the 不死鳥／絶品 - but Bloomsbury is already 予報するing '抱擁する levels of 需要・要求する from readers'. It has not yet ordered the final print run, and would not comment on whether Rowling is working on the sixth 肩書を与える about the boy wizard.

Chairman Nigel Newton 強調d that Bloomsbury's adult and 言及／関連 目録s are just as strong as its children's 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）. Sales of the grown-up 肩書を与えるs rose 62% and 言及／関連 作品 by 37%, while children's sales 現実に fell by 7%.

He said: 'Not only did we 達成する best 販売人s with 作品 by 設立するd authors 含むing Joanna Trollope's Girl From the Sun and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend but our 現在進行中の 戦略 to identify talented new authors showed 著名な success with Schott's 初めの Miscellany by Ben Schott.'

He 追加するd: 'During 2003 the group's strong balance sheet and cashflow will support 増加するd 投資 in the 大臣の地位 to 運動 both 有機の and 取得／買収-led growth.'

The group had 投資するd £11m in 未来 肩書を与えるs, compared with £7m at the same time last year. The newly-開始する，打ち上げるd US children's publishing 部隊 will 問題／発行する 51 肩書を与えるs this year, from 36 last year.

来たるべき 肩書を与えるs in the UK 含む hardbacks from Margaret Attwood, Sophie Dahl, Schott's follow-up Food and Drink Miscellany and paperbacks from Donna Tartt, Ethan 強硬派 and Jeffrey Eugenides.

Bloomsbury made four 取得／買収s last year, of which the most 著名な was Whitaker's Almanack, which was first published in 1868. In its first year under Bloomsbury's wing it （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 its previous year's sales by 58%.

Total sales rose by 11% to £68m and 利益（をあげる） before 税金 and amortisation was up by 19% at £11.1m. Headline 収入s rose 20% to 46.17p per 株 and the （株主への）配当 is raised by 14% to 7.17p. Bloomsbury 株 追加するd 7 1/2p to 740p. They have risen more than 25% in the past six months.