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Founder of Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury to step down

One ​of Mr Newton's defining moments was acquiring the rights to ​J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book after several publishers had rejected it

If you want the whole piece, that’s at the paper. We only keep the nut graf.

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