John Wiley & Sons
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| John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | |
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| Type | Public (NYSE: JWA, NYSE: JWB) |
| Founded | 1807 in New York, New York |
| Headquarters | Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Key people | William J. Pesce; CEO |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Products | Publisher of print and electronic products |
| Revenue | $1.2 billion USD (Image:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 18% FY 2006) |
| Employees | 3500+ |
| Website | www.wiley.com |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., often referred to as Wiley, is a well-known publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, business related texts, and medical books and journals. However, in the last few years, Wiley has also started publishing books on politics and current affairs. The business began in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a printing shop in Manhattan which published law books in its early years and went on to publish current literary works. In 1875, under his son William, the company adopted its present name and added scientific and technical works to its repertoire. Today, it has more than 3,500 employees worldwide.
Among its well known book publications are the ...For Dummies series, Webster's New World dictionaries, Wrox Press, Sybex,, CliffsNotes, Betty Crocker cookbooks, Frommer's Travel Guides, and The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML. Additionally, Wiley offers both professional and consumer books and subscription services, as well as textbooks and other educational materials for higher education and beyond. Wiley also publishes many journals including Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, HEPATOLOGY and Liver Transplantation. The online publishing arm of Wiley is known as Wiley InterScience. Wiley InterScience was launched commercially in January 1999 and features searchable online journals, references works, databases, and online books. In December 2007, Wiley began distributing its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service.
Wiley operates in USA, Canada, the EU, Asia, and Australia, with offices in Hoboken, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Toronto, Chichester, London, Weinheim, Milton and Singapore.
The company went public in 1962 and was listed on the NYSE in 1995. Since 2002, the company's world headquarters have been located in Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, where the previous headquarters were located.
On November 17, 2006, Wiley announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing; the acquisition was completed in February 2007.[1] The merged company of Wiley-Blackwell will publish over 1,250 scholarly peer-reviewed journals, amounting to over one million pages per year, in addition to an extensive range of books.
On April 25, 2007, Wiley threatened legal action against blogger Shelley Batts for posting an image from an article in the Wiley-published Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture,[2][3] but later apologized citing it as "a misunderstanding inadvertently caused by a junior member of staff".[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- The First One Hundred and Fifty Years: A History of John Wiley and Sons Incorporated 1807-1957 with no author listed. 242 pages which includes index. Contains black and white photographic plates of documents, buildings and personnel. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (17 November 2006). "Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing (Holdings) Ltd.". Press release. Retrieved on 7 June 2007.
- ^ Batts, Shelley (24 April 2007), Antioxidants in Berries Increased by Ethanol (but Are Daiquiris Healthy?), <http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/04/antioxidants_in_berries_increa_1.php>. Retrieved on 7 June 2007
- ^ Swaminathan, Nikhil (27 April 2007), Science Journal (Almost) Polices the Blogosphere, <http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?p=527&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&showComments=1>. Retrieved on 7 June 2007
- ^ Batts, Shelley (26 April 2007), VICTORY! A Happy Resolution, <http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/04/victory_a_happy_resolution.php>. Retrieved on 7 June 2007
- ^ From a copy of The First One Hundred and Fifty Years published by John Wiley (New York) in 1957 with no ISBN
[edit] External links
- Corporate website
- Detailed company history published as part of its bicentennial celebration
- Wiley InterScience - online journal and book contentde:John Wiley & Sons
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