Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
04 July 2006



4 July 2006

                   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ('the Company')

                              Dealing by Director

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc announces that Nigel Newton, a Director, has today
exercised options to subscribe for 220,000 ordinary shares in the Company at
66.25p per share. These options, should they have remained unexercised, would
have lapsed on 6 July 2006.

He has then sold 220,000 ordinary shares at 325p per share.

Following these transactions, Mr Newton's holding in the Company remains
unchanged at 2,758,488 ordinary shares.



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