Thursday, August 20, 2009

Bloomsbury takes Wisden online
19.08.09 Catherine Neilan in The Bookseller

Bloomsbury has made the seven most recent editions of the cricketing almanack Wisden available online for a one-off subscription of £40 in the run up to the last game of this year's Ashes, which starts at the Oval this week (20th August).
The online edition has a "searchable format", and the subscription includes access to Wisden on the Ashes, which the publisher describe as "the authoritative story of cricket's greatest rivalry" between England and Australia. It is being made available through Bloomsbury Library Online.
Bloomsbury Library Online is sold on subscription to individuals and through public libraries. Users click through from home, from library terminals or through an online portal accessible via any web browser, including those found on the iPhone and Blackberry.

The 2009 hardback edition of Wisden, published by A&C Black, is currently retailing for £29. It "recounts a year when cricket was turned on its head", looking at the "Twenty20 revolution", England losing three captains and a coach within six months, and both England and Australia losing consecutive Test series away to India and home to South Africa in the run up to the Ashes.

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