{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Nigel Newton on Gold-Digging, Fast Cars, Friendship, and Finding Harry Potter","description":"Bloomsbury Publishing has been in business for almost forty years. Last year it earned \u00a3361.0 million. Over the past five years it\u2019s taken in more than \u00a31.4 Billion. It\u2019s one of, if not the most successful publishing ventures of the past century. How does this work? I asked Founder and Chief Executive Nigel Newton. Here we talk about, among other things, Frank Newton \u2014 Nigel\u2019s prospecting, race car-driving grandfather; about Peter, his wine-making father; about book publishing and stock picking; the acquisition A&C Black; The Garrick Club; \u2018romantasy\u2019 and Sarah J. Maas; Liz Calder; floatation in 1994; aspiring to be mid-sized; Christopher Little; J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter being a fluke; Amazon observing territorial copyright; AI licensing agreements as unforeseen backlist windfalls; suing AI companies; ideal publishing companies; surviving medically; Emotional Intelligence; The History of Bloomsbury Publishing coming out in April, 2027 to celebrate 40th years in business; Anthony Blonde\u2019s book - not The Truth about Publishing. It\u2019s either The Publishing Game (1971) or The Book Book (1983) (for sure I own at least one of these, and I\u2019m going to say, almost 100%, it\u2019s signed); foreign rights; and how to lead a happy, fulfilling life. ","author_name":"The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale","author_url":"https:\/\/thebibliofile.ca","html":"