India, the world's biggest nation of cricket fans, is set to get its own version of Wisden after publisher Bloomsbury signed a licensing deal with local firm FidelisWorld... more
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury continues its shift away from the volatile 'retail' market with a £20 million deal to buy academic specialist Continuum... more
Sales of ebooks are soaring. Online retailer Amazon.co.uk is selling more than twice as many books on its Kindle device than in hardback. In America, seen as 12 months ahead of the UK, Amazon's Kindle ebook numbers have overtaken those of hardbacks and paperbacks combined... more
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury becomes the latest firm to report soaring e-book sales in the UK, generating £1.1 million between January and March... more
Grumpy intellectual Robin Ince, who hosted, hit the correct note when he described the annual all-star fixture Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People... more
Market Round-up: Dana Petroleum waves around strong numbers as part of its attempt to force Korea National Oil Corp to raise its £1.9 billion hostile takeover bid... more
Library books and magazines including Wisden and the Bible will be available to download on to mobile phones or computers under a pioneering scheme at a London library... more
THERE are some pertinent questions to be asked about energy prices and it is to the benefit of consumers that the Prime Minister is asking them. Gordon Brown has pointed out that while gas and electricity prices rose to take account of the increased price of oil, there have been no corresponding cuts in fuel bills as the price of oil comes down. Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has met the six big energy retailers to tell them that the Government wants prices to fall. Meanwhile, the former head of Energywatch, Allan Asher, has said that consumers' annual bills of £1,200 could be reduced by up to a third if there were reforms to the wholesale market and greater competition between suppliers. He has a point: at a time when official inflation figures are just over five per cent, some suppliers have increased gas prices by a third.... more
This photographic artwork by a French artist known as "JR" fills the entire side of a four-storey terrace in Bloomsbury - but it has not necessarily impressed those living nearby
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Joanna Trollope has left her publisher of many years, Bloomsbury. It's reported that Trollope felt that the firm has become so preoccupied with its great money-maker, JK Rowling, that it has neglected its bread and butter authors and lost its way... more
The beige stage of Verdi's grim Rigoletto is a sludgy mess. So it's lucky that a fine cast and glittering score are on hand to do all the work.... more
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