Wiley results: print only 29% of revenue
Wiley Australia’s K-12 schools business recorded revenue of US$27.229 million (A$29.107 million) for the financial year ended 30 April.This was down three percent from $US28.081 million ($30.019 million) on the...
Scribd partners with Wiley
In the US, ebook subscription service Scribd has partnered with Wiley to add 1000 titles to the service, including the For Dummies list, reports Digital Book World. The titles are...
Wiley sales rep charged with stealing US$2.8 million in textbooks in US
In the US, a sales rep has been charged with stealing US$2.8 million (A$2.58 million) worth of textbooks from his former employer, the US arm of John Wiley & Sons,...
Fernhust Books acquires Wiley Nautical assets
Fernhust Books has acquired the print and digital assets for 180 titles from John Wiley & Sons’ nautical consumer publishing program Wiley Nautical, Wiley has announced in a statement. Classic titles...
Wiley sells 1500 consumer titles to Turner Publishing
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has continued to sell off its consumer publishing assets, selling its pets, crafts and general interest lists to Turner Publishing, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
HMH acquires culinary lists, CliffNotes and Webster’s from Wiley
In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has announced that its trade and reference division has acquired a number of assets from John Wiley & Sons, including Wiley’s culinary lists, CliffNotes...
Wiley to partner with Kno to produce interactive textbooks
In the US, John Wiley & Sons’ global education division will partner with educational software developer Kno to create interactive textbooks, reports Publishers Weekly. The arrangement will involve Kno creating...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September. At the awards ceremony held at Fed Square’s BMW Edge,...
Wiley announces results; planned changes ‘unlikely to significantly affect activities’ in Australia
Wiley has reported revenue in the Asia Pacific division of its Global Education segment fell by $13 million (approximately A$12.7 million) or eight percent in the fourth quarter, ‘reflecting softness in the...
Google buys Frommer’s from Wiley
Google is buying Frommer's from publisher John Wiley & Sons to attract more advertising dollars tied to online-travel bookings and local-business information. Financial terms were not disclosed in Monday's announcement,...
Wiley US files piracy lawsuit against four individuals
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has filed lawsuits against four individuals over alleged illegal downloading of its titles, reports the BBC. The suits are based on the use...
Sale of Wiley assets to have ‘minimal impact’ on local operations
The planned sale of professional and trade publishing assets by John Wiley & Sons is expected to have 'minimal impact' on the publisher’s operations in Australia, according to a spokesperson...
Inscape acquisition represents ‘opportunity’ for Wiley in local training market
The recent acquisition of Inscape Holdings by John Wiley & Sons represents an 'opportunity to build further' in the English-language training market in Australia, according to a spokesperson for the...
Russell to retire from Wiley; Gray to take on new position
John Wiley & Sons Australia has announced that Lucy Russell, general manager for higher education, will retirement from the company in April 2012. The publisher said in a statement that...
Local operations contribute to strong financial results for Wiley
International publisher John Wiley & Sons has recorded a three percent increase in total revenues and a 20% increase in net income for the fiscal year ending 30 April 2011. In the...
Australian ‘Style Manual’ under government review; 6th edition to be available until 2013
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article Government discontinues tender process to revise Australian ‘Style Manual', the Department of Finance and Deregulation has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the...
Government discontinues tender process to revise Australian ‘Style Manual’
The Australian Government will not proceed with a tender process to explore options for revising and updating the Australian Government Style Manual. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that the Department...
Linaker to leave Wiley, Robertson to become executive director
Wiley Australia has announced that managing director Heather Linaker will be leaving the role at the end of November. ‘Heather assumed this role in September 2008 during a period when...
Linaker to leave Wiley, Robertson to become executive director
Wiley Australia has announced that managing director Heather Linaker will be leaving the role at the end of November. ‘Heather assumed this role in September 2008 during a period when...
Wiley reports Asia-Pacific Higher Ed revenue up 13%
Revenue in Wiley's Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said the Asia-Pacific full-year revenue of...