 There is renewed interest in the early Harry Potter novels |
Harry Potter books are continuing to work their magic for publisher Bloomsbury, with the firm seeing a 24% rise in underlying profits for 2005. Profit before tax and an exceptional gain was �20.13m ($34.78m) last year, up from �16.28m in 2004. The firm said in a statement that it had experienced a good start to 2006. The year was dominated by Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince which beat sales forecasts, and increased interest in the earlier novels.
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