Director Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
27 January 2005


                   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ('the Company')

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC announces that Nigel Newton, a director, has today
sold 129,000 ordinary shares in the Company at 311p per share. Following the
sale Mr. Newton now holds an interest in 2,758,488 ordinary shares in the
Company.



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