Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Wednesday reported a 40 percent jump in annual profit and raised its final dividend payout by about a quarter, buoyed by a reading boom which stayed even after the pandemic lockdowns.
The London-listed publisher, best known for picking up J.K. Rowling’s Potter series in 1997 after its rejection by a dozen others, “achieved its highest ever results” as more and more people picked up the habit of reading.
