Agreement with Bloomberg

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
14 December 2001


BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC


Bloomsbury License Who's Who to Bloomberg LP


London 14 December 2001: Bloomsbury Publishing plc is pleased to announce its
first database licence partnership for Who's Who with Bloomberg LP, the market
leader in the provision of global business information.  The content will be
available electronically to subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional Service.

Following Bloomsbury's acquisition in July 2000 of A&C Black, publishers of
Who's Who, the content of Who's Who has been transferred into a full
electronic database and is now available to be licensed electronically to
major corporate clients.

Who's Who 2002 will also be published in print form at the end of January by A&C
Black.

Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury, said today :

' I am delighted that the benefits of Bloomsbury's electronic and content
management expertise have so quickly been allied to A&C Black's authoritative
reference publishing. We are delighted to be working with Bloomberg on this
project.

Today's announcement highlights the value of creating and owning major branded
databases. Alongside the Encarta World English Database, the business
information reference data base we are creating with the Economist Group, and
the ELT (English Language Teaching) Dictionary Database project with
Macmillan, Bloomsbury is very successfully building a highly flexible,
long-term publishing resource.'


ENDS


Contact

Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Simon Forrest, Impact Consultancy Ltd           020 7479 4770 or 07885 317746

John Barrington-Carver



Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing is one of Europe's leading independent publishing houses
with a reputation for a high quality management team and a highly valuable
portfolio of intellectual properties.  A&C Black Publishers Ltd is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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Bloomberg LP

Bloomberg is an international news and information organization. The company
provides news, data and analysis to the business community and media outlets.
Bloomberg provides real-time pricing, historical pricing, indicative data,
analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day through the BLOOMBERG
PROFESSIONAL service. Bloomberg media includes television, radio, publishing
and Internet operations worldwide.



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Who's Who

Who's Who has been published annually since 1849. With over 30,000 entries, it
is the recognised source book of information on people of influence and
interest in all fields. The 154th edition will be published in January 2002.