Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
About Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent
publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel,
Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of
the Harry Potter series.
Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York,
New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney.
Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well
as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all
began.
Bloomsbury is the originating
publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series.
Welcome to the home of Harry Potter books! From
children's paperbacks to stunning illustrated editions and gorgeous boxsets,
magic is only the turn of a page away..
Accessible Editions and Other
Languages
The Classic Harry Potter Series
Our
mission is to be a creative, entrepreneurial, independent publisher of books,
audiobooks and digital content of excellence and originality and to bring these
works to a worldwide audience. Our purpose is to inform, educate, entertain and
inspire readers of all ages and backgrounds. We champion a life-long love of
reading and learning and seek to help build a reading culture with all the
benefits which that brings society.
We want to
create a working environment that stimulates creativity and collaboration, is
respectful of difference, inclusive and ethical in its practice and supports
well-being. We are determined to nurture and develop our authors and our
employees to their highest potential and know that our success is down to the
passion, commitment and hard work of our talented people. We recognize the
urgent need to help people from all backgrounds and identities to become part
of the global publishing industry, allowing diverse voices to both reflect and
shape our culture and society.
We are
committed to helping authors, both new and established, to bring original and
powerful works across an array of genres and subjects to readers and learners
worldwide, sharing ideas, knowledge and experience, and sometimes challenging
convention. Our editorial decisions are informed by a belief in the freedom of
speech.
Our special interest division was shortlisted
for the the British Book Awards’ Publisher of the Year, 2018 (in conjunction
with our trade list) and includes the following imprints:
Adlard Coles, BBC Proms, Bloomsbury Caravel, Bloomsbury China, Bloomsbury
Continuum, Bloomsbury Wildlife, Bloomsbury Reader, Bloomsbury Sigma, Bloomsbury Sport, Burns & Oates, Helm, Herbert Press,
Conway, Green Tree, Osprey Games, Osprey Publishing, Philip Wilson Publishers, Shire
Publications, T&A D Poyser, Reeds, Wisden, Bloomsbury Yearbooks.
Shortlisted
for Children’s Publisher of the Year 2018 for both the Independent Publishing
Group Award and the British Book Awards, our children’s consumer division
includes the bestselling authors J.K. Rowling, Michael Rosen, Sarah J. Maas,
Debi Gliori, Sarah Crossan, Lucy Worsley, Sibeal Pounder, Louis Sachar and Neil
Gaiman. The imprints in the division are Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Bloomsbury YA, Bloomsbury
Activity Books.
Our education
division incorporates the imprints Bloomsbury Education, Featherstone and Andrew Brodie.
The
Academic & Professional division has lifelong learning at the heart of our
business, publishing works of excellence and originality to inspire, educate
and inform, and believing that intellectual curiosity and educational
achievement go hand-in-hand.
The Academic division
specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, law, business and
management, and study skills. It includes Fairchild Books, Hart Publishing, I.B. Tauris, Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Zed Books.
In 2021 we acquired Red Globe
Press from Macmillan Education Limited, as
well as ABC-CLIO.
Bloomsbury Professional leads in UK and Ireland law, tax and accounting.
Bloomsbury
Digital Resources provides
creative online research and learning environments that deliver excellence and
originality.
The
division has won the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational &
Professional Publisher of the Year three times: in 2013, 2014 and 2021.
Our products cover a
range of disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Visual Arts, and
Performing Arts.
All of Bloomsbury's
Digital Resources offer these benefits for institutions:
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No limit on the number of simultaneous users
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Access by IP address, proxy server, Shibboleth, WAYFless URL and other
standard authentication methods
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Convenient online account management service
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Support for outbound OpenURL linking from citations
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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
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COUNTER 5 usage statistics
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MARC records at volume level for all book titles
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Institutional logo displayed on interface
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Conforms to accessibility standards for most Level A (Priority 1) and
AA (Priority 2) success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG 2.0) developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
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Promotional materials available