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This
profile considers the John Wiley publishing group.
It covers -
 introduction
US-based publisher John Wiley & Sons specialises in
print and electronic products for the professional, consumer,
scientific, technical and higher education markets. Its
corporate site is here.
Wiley has around 22,700 active titles and 400 journals,
publishing about 2,000 new titles each year. Around 25%
of global sales are "web-enabled". The group
has around 3,150 employees in the US , Europe (UK and
Germany), Canada, Australia and Asia. Approximately 40%
of revenue is generated outside the US.
In contrast to McGraw-Hill
it has not diversified out of publishing. Prominent competitors
are Kluwer, Thomson
and Elsevier.
the group
Wiley dates from 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a printing,
publishing and bookselling business in Manhattan, going
on to publish authors such as writers such as Washington
Irving (he was a partner with Cornelius van Winkle in
the 1820s), James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Herman Melville.
Wiley was in partnership with George Putnam for a decade
but after 1848 came to specialise in science and technology
publishing. Putnam's departure reflected disagreement
about copyright:
Wiley considered that the partnership couldn't afford
to be the only American publisher to pay royalties to
foreign authors and still compete in the US market.
In the 1960s Wiley expanded overseas (an Australian subsidiary
was established in 1963) and like its competitors the
company went on the acqusition trail, buying niche book
and journal publishers such as Scripta-Technica and the
German VCH group before buying major educational publishing
interests from Pearson and Thomson.
In November 2006 it agreed to acquire Blackwell
Publishing for £572m.
chronology
An indication of the group's history is here.
imprints
Major imprints are identified here.
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