Susan Spilka
sspilka@wiley.com
Wiley
(201) 748-6147
Heidi Johnson
heidi.johnson@virtualprdirector.com
LibreDigital
(512) 493-0909
Wiley Partners with LibreDigital to Deliver eBook, Custom Content, and Discovery Tools
Hoboken, N.J., May 29, 2008 — Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), and LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., announced today that Wiley has selected LibreDigital’s Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide eBook, custom content, and discovery tools to Wiley customers, partners, and users.
This partnership is an important step in enabling Wiley’s vision of “All Wiley All the Time,” in which customers will be able to seamlessly access, assemble, output, and purchase any Wiley content wherever, whenever, and however they need and want it. LibreDigital’s toolset fast-tracks Wiley’s Content Technology Initiative, which has included plans for the creation of a single content store for all of Wiley’s content spanning its businesses, geographic boundaries, and product types—towards the goal of making content available and useable to its customers, users, and partners from that significant content store.
With the union of LibreDigital’s digital asset delivery technology with Wiley’s deep reservoir of digital content, Wiley will be able to deliver select published content from across Wiley’s three core businesses, no matter how or where it was originally published, and allow customers to choose the desired final product format, be it print, online, or as a download to a computer or mobile device.
Among the first applications supported by the partnership will be more efficient distribution of eBooks to resellers and an improved system for creating customized college textbooks.
“Our partnership with LibreDigital represents a significant milestone in Wiley’s Content Technology Initiative and helps us to fulfill our vision of enabling our customers to search across all of our content, and assemble their own product, which then can be delivered as they need—regardless of its source,” said Gregory St. John, Vice President, Web Publishing Technologies, Wiley. “The new capabilities that the LibreDigital hosted solution provides will also allow us to develop more efficient processes, and create new products that draw on content from across our three core businesses.”
“LibreDigital is pleased to partner with Wiley, a global publisher that has served the higher education; scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly; and many professional/trade communities with distinction for over two centuries,” said Craig Miller, Vice President and General Manager of LibreDigital. “The opportunity to help this venerable company deliver their powerhouse of content quickly and with flexibility directly into the hands of their users and customers is very exciting.”
About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Since 1901, Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 350 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Peace.
Our core businesses publish scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.
About LibreDigital
LibreDigital develops technologies to enable book publishers to captivate readers across new print, online and mobile platforms, including the iPhone. The LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse for controlled Internet distribution and display of book content, eBooks and Audio Books is the platform-of-choice for the world’s top book publishers. LibreDigital is a division of NewsStand, a privately-held company headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in New York City, Germany and the United Kingdom. Investors include Adams Capital Management, Noro-Moseley Partners, the New York Times Company and HarperCollins Publishers. Find out more at www.libredigital.com.
