Bloomsbury Publishing Share Discussion Threads

[c1d] 01/5/2013 10:12

Link to BBC article on (British) Publishers Association figures on 2012 physical and ebook spending. Interesting that while digital spend was up 66% spending on physical books was only down 1% with overall spend up 4% at £3.3bn.

[rainmaker] 30/4/2013 11:58

I think US Value Investors, Black Rock 10.87% shareholders may have been back in the market

[spooky] 30/4/2013 09:39

Interesting trading today, the first decent volume in a long time.

[tara7] 29/4/2013 06:13

Newsflash:

Found this Tweet.!!


Drama Online‏@dramaonlinelib 28 Mar

All four of the Best New Play Nominations coming from the Drama Online stable #olivier @FaberBooks.


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[tara7] 05/4/2013 13:54

OK, cos its Fri, you have been let off.!!

Your Churchill archive and Drama online are real winners.!

[spob] 05/4/2013 13:51

Dont mean to be rude Tara but you know what i mean

[tara7] 05/4/2013 13:51

26 March: Nominations announced

The nominees for London theatre's most prestigious prize were revealed in an exciting event held at the May Fair Hotel. The announcement, made by last year's Best Actress winner Ruth Wilson and musical theatre icon Elaine Paige, was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 in a programme hosted by Ken Bruce. The recipient of a record-breaking seven awards at the 2012 ceremony, Matilda The Musical performed live.

28 April: Olivier Awards with MasterCard 2013

The climax of London theatre's awards season, the Olivier Awards ceremony celebrates a fantastic year of entertainment in the theatre capital of the world. The 2013 ceremony will be held at the Royal Opera House, where stars of stage and screen, along with distinguished guests from the arts and culture scene, will come together in an evening of award-giving and incredible, specially-created entertainment.

While the show goes on in the Royal Opera House, the public are invited to a very special event taking over the Covent Garden piazza, where there will be music, entertainment and a live stream of events inside.

Last but not least, theatre fans who can't get to Covent Garden can listen to the all the action live on BBC Radio 2, follow news updates on www.olivierawards.com and Twitter, and see the very best bits of the ceremony - the incredible performances, the glamorous outfits, the touching speeches - in a special highlights show on ITV

[tara7] 05/4/2013 13:49

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What people are saying about Drama Online.


'A ground-breaking digital resource that makes available a vast library of plays and reference works while offering bespoke features tailored to the needs of individual students and researchers. Drama Online blazes the trail for a new era of digital theatre publishing'.
Dr Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London

'I am amazed and delighted to learn about Drama Online. Surely this is the best expression to date of the digital revolution as far as literary studies are concerned. What a terrific resource this will be for students, teachers, theatre practitioners, and the general reader. As far as Shakespeare is concerned it will show us the human endeavour that made him possible and the subsequent drama his works continue to inspire'.
Dr Paul Edmondson, Head of Learning and Research, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

'With instant search access to quite literally hundreds of plays, and reference works Drama Online is fast becoming the essential site for theatre and performance'. Geoffrey Colman, Head of Acting, Central School of Speech and Drama

'The new Drama Online library website is the next generation of sophisticated online tools for students, actors, researchers, librarians, and lovers of theatre. Take Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury and Faber, with their extraordinary collections and preeminent scholarship. Combine their resources. Place them into an elegant, intuitive and deep interface. And watch this become the most important bookmark on your browser'.
Professor Rocco Dal Vera, University of Cincinnati

'I am excited and eager to explore and research this new digital resource. I anticipate using Drama Online regularly'. Jeffrey Bihr, actor, director, composer, Stanford University Drama

'I particularly look forward to the time saving and cross referencing aspects of the website. I look forward to having this kind of resource at my fingertips and will certainly recommend it to my actors and students in rehearsal and the classroom'.
Beth McGuire, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Drama

'Drama Online – curated by some of the wisest publishers in the business – sets the stage for a new generation of readers, writers, and thespians to not only find, but also actively work with plays. It is a new, exciting way to engage with the stage, while never losing sight of the treasured heritage of theater and the performing arts. As a college English instructor, I can tell that this resource will be a goldmine'.
Michael Arnzen, Professor of English, Seton Hill University

'Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber and Faber create something unique with Drama Online. By combining the resources of Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and the Faber catalogue in a single website that provides filtered browsing and powerful search and navigation capabilities, Drama Online becomes the first stop of choice for drama teachers, students, scholars and practitioners. This is a brilliantly thought through and executed digital library providing both the opportunity of finding exactly what you are looking for and the possibility of encountering an unexpected revelation'.
Richard Brestoff, Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine

'Drama Online promises to reinvent performance studies for a ground-breaking digital environment'.
T. Mera Moore Lafferty, Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

[tara7] 05/4/2013 13:47

Spob, not nice when good news for you as a shareholder was offered.!Drama Online‏

@dramaonlinelib 28 Mar
All four of the Best New Play Nominations coming from the Drama Online stable! #olivier @FaberBooks


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[tara7] 05/4/2013 10:17

Great news for investors here, see my posts today re Drama online on the PTO thread

[rainmaker] 02/4/2013 16:03

There's been some good buying today, though

regards

[jerc] 02/4/2013 15:56

Agreed Rainmaker. And so does IC uber tipster Simon Thompson. Desperately small volumes in the past few weeks though. So it just needs someone to get the story out to a much wider audience.

[rainmaker] 23/3/2013 19:29

Spooky-having held for over two years, I'm satisfied and condident that conditions exist ie low rating and growth for a sustained rise in the share price this year, taking us through last year's highs of circa 150p.

regards

[rainmaker] 23/3/2013 19:24

K8 RHM-many a true word spoken in jest

regards

[spooky] 22/3/2013 19:26

It looks as though there are three institutions with more than 26% of the shares that are looking to reduce their positions, not usually a good recipe for a rising share price.The company has said it will make the numbers so the shares are cheap, but it's up to management to tell the story and build on the platform for growth that they have established.

[k8 rhm] 22/3/2013 17:24

Thanks Rainmaker, it was just an innocent comment made but multiply that by the Ebook boom and we have a sound business model with cash to boot. Funnily enough these are in my wife's SIPP so she is kind of contributing to her pension!

[rainmaker] 21/3/2013 23:12

I think the market has been caught napping, paying too much attention to short term factors ie the interim results without realising that that, with Bloomsbury's Academic and Professional reference titles-whose earnings fall in the second half- taking a larger share of their sales, they are almost irrevelant.

regards

[rainmaker] 21/3/2013 23:08

Hi K8 RHM-re post 603, you make a very good point, Bloomsbury actually said that Customers bought more books in the digital format than they did previously in the printed version. Then you add in higher margins in this new format and their huge back catalogue they have digitised, what more can I say but I'll let their results speak for them.We're already in the midst of an e-book boom.

regards

[shanklin] 21/3/2013 09:52

Just bought a few at 113.5p.

[rainmaker] 20/3/2013 00:28

In Value Investing for every Record(REC)up over 230% in 8 months there is a Bloomsbury Publishing(BMY)which even though I've taken advantage of dips to add more, I'm only up circa 7% in over two years but there's also a big dividend to take into account so I reckon my overall return is maybe 15% so 7% pa compound.That's no disaster. In Value Investing you have to accept the rough with the smooth.Things won't always go to plan-you have to be both very tenacious and resilient-able to deal with whatever the market throws at you. Although having said that there aren't too many surprises.

In Value Investing,your winners will be spectacularly successful because the market will have suddenly decided their business does have a value and there're also rising from historically and relatively very low levels, (nb....if you allow your positions to run) and typically your disappointments will just be,well disappointments and not unmitigated disasters.Value Investing is the only stock market technique to really focus on downside risk. A friend of mine is privy to all my dealings and he remarked the other day not just on the spectacular successes but also losers that were basically worth what I paid from them.

Sometimes it seem like magic-you finish your buying and the share price climbs and climbs and climbs yet other times you will really have to grind out your returns.

regards

[rainmaker] 20/3/2013 00:00

Hi Pote-I hope you're well "More than happy to sit on these.(I'll be even happier to pick some more up at a lower price)."

Congratulations Pote, spoken like a true Stockmarket Value Investor.Nice dividend yield to collect whilst we wait.

best wishes

[pote] 19/3/2013 20:18

Likewise, an initial purchase for me of 4607.
More than happy to sit on these.
(I'll be even happier to pick some more up at a lower price)