Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction, with its head office on Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden. It was founded in 1986 by Nigel Newton, who had worked for other publishers, and floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1994 with a valuation of 9 million pounds. In 1997 it took a chance on the Harry Potter series after multiple publishers had rejected it. It founded a United States branch in 1998 and later grew through academic acquisitions, including ABC-CLIO in 2021 and Rowman and Littlefield in 2024. It has publishing offices in New York, New Delhi and the United Kingdom, an Australian sales office in Sydney, and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.