Executive Summary
Bloomsbury Publishing is one of Europe's leading independent publishing houses with a reputation for a high quality management team and a highly valuable portfolio of intellectual properties. The company has particular strengths in:
- Media and Electronic Reference publishing - developing information databases for electronic as well as print publication. The division currently has three major databases, one of which, The Encarta World English Dictionary in association with Microsoft, was completed in 1999.
- Children's publishing - a highly successful list including successful authors such as J.K.Rowling, Debi Gliori, and Benjamin Zephaniah.
- Fiction and Non-Fiction - a growing list of successful authors such as Khaled Hosseini, William Boyd, Margaret Atwood, Joanna Trollope, Donna Tartt, Sophie Dahl, Richard Ford, David Guterson, John Irving, Michael Ondaatje, Jay McInerney, Ben Schott, Anthony Bourdain, William Dalrymple, Ben Macintyre, Heston Blumenthal and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
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