The company publishes both fiction and non-fiction books written by and for pre-teens, teenagers, and young adults (ages 12–26).
[4] Books are marketed and sold under the single Bombadil Publishing brand, but the company is a franchise operation and has offices in many countries, including the US, the UK, India, and Latin America.
[5] After the company's foundation in 2007, major expansion began early in 2008, with eleven countries being added in November that year alone[6] and the number of authors rising from several hundred to over 50,000 by the end of the year and to over 200,000 by the end of 2010.
[8] In El Salvador, Bombadil had difficulty securing promised token government payments to authors[11] and in 2012 had to abandon a claim for reimbursement for 10,000 books ordered by a government ministry that were not paid for.
[12][13][14] One of the Swedish companies was put into administration on 17 February 2011 in Örebro District Court, Sweden.