In other Rowling news, the BBC reports that the author has completed a set of handwritten fairytales which were mentioned in her last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

There will be just seven volumes of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which will not be published. Instead, one copy will be auctioned to raise...

Emily Monkton-Milnes, currently key accounts manager at Random House Children's Books, is to join Bloomsbury in December as children's key accounts manager. She replaces Rosamund de la Hay who left on Thursday after 13 years with the company.

Previously head of PR and marketing, de la Hay managed the early PR and marketing for...

Bloomsbury Publishing saw its revenue rise 36.5% to £51.4m in the first half of 2007, with profit before investment income up 7.6% to £3.3m. The growth was down to export orders of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with UK orders due to be accounted in the publisher's second-half, and "one of the most sustained...

Students translated the final Harry Potter book hours after its publication and months ahead of the official Chinese version, state media reports.

The first Chinese version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows appeared on the internet on 21st July, the day of the English version's global release.

China Daily quoted...