JK Rowling’s Harry Potter fuels Bloomsbury profit rise
Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential also helps boost publisher’s profits by 13%
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How real books have trumped ebooks
The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherished
British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman to step down
Having been editor-in-chief for 25 years, Shulman is moving on as publisher Condé Nast makes other managerial changes
Still in vogue: luxury magazines defy print market gloom
Top glossy titles pull more readers and advertisers as fashion, arts and lifestyle content retains its shiny appeal
Sales of printed books fall by more than £150m in five years
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooks
James Patterson’s Private Vegas: a $300,000 self-destructing book for the superfan
A special edition of the crime-fiction king’s new novel will include a five-course dinner with the author, gold binoculars – and a very limited time to read it