English Today for free
No, that doesn’t mean you can use the language without charge for 24 hours only (like the name “Jaffa Cakes”, someone forgot to copyright the English language and must be kicking themselves now), but rather that the journal English Today is available this month for free in order to celebrate reaching 100 readers in its 25 year history. It’s no Viz, Private Eye or El Jueves, but I will be reading the whole thing this time just to prove to them that making it free rather than- wait for it- 110 pounds a year is a very good idea indeed. If you want to do the same, click here and show your support. I’ll be interested to see whether more people are interested in this than were interested in saving ELT in the UK!
November 29th, 2009 at 8:39 am
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November 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
From an email from CUP
“BTW, the price is actually £34/$54 for individuals this year (and the price remains the same next year). The higher price category of £116 is actually for institutional libraries and includes online access for multiple users. I’d appreciate it if you would post a line about that on your blog as I wouldn’t want your readers to be under the misconception that ET is that expensive! Thank you for doing this.
In case you or your readers want the link to those details, it’s
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ENG ”
I still think the way I wrote it was far more interesting, but was happy to give this correction as them not mentioning that 100 readers should be 100 editions shows they have some sense of humour
December 5th, 2009 at 6:13 am
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