Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
30 November 2005





                   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ('the Company')

                              Dealing by Director

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc announces that Nigel Newton, a Director, yesterday
exercised options to subscribe for 300,000 ordinary shares in the Company at
66.25p per share and then immediately sold 300,000 ordinary shares at 326p per
share.







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