Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
03 October 2005





                   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ('the Company')

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc announces that Mr Colin Adams, a director, has today
exercised the following options to subscribe for ordinary shares in the Company:

Options to Subscribe For Ordinary Shares                 Exercise Price
------------------------------                           ----------------
           1,616                                                20.75p
         137,773                                               220.25p


Mr Adams has also today sold 181,585 ordinary shares at 330p per share and his
wife, Mrs Alison Adams, has sold 10,000 ordinary shares at 330p per share.


Following these transactions, Mr Adams now holds an interest in 50,000 ordinary
shares in the Company.






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