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Wiley at a Glance | Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include professional and consumer books and subscription services; scientific, technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at www.wiley.com.
The Company continued its growth in fiscal 2002, with revenues advancing 20% and net income before unusual items increasing 10%.
In 2002, The Wiley Foundation and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., established the annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences to recognize contributions that have opened new fields of research or advanced novel concepts or their applications in biomedical science. The prize was awarded in its first year to Dr. H. Robert Horvitz of MIT for his seminal research on programmed cell death and Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for his discovery of the relationship between human lymphomas and the fundamental biological process of apoptosis.
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Professional/Trade |
Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) |
Higher Education |
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Books and subscription products in all media |
Journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services |
Educational materials in all media, focused on courses in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and accounting, with growing positions in business, computer science, psychology, education, nutrition, and modern languages
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Professionals and consumers in targeted segments, including business, consumer, psychology, architecture, technology, teacher education, travel, reference, accounting, and culinary
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Academic, research, and corporate libraries; scientists, researchers, clinicians, students, and professors |
Undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners |
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Wiley, Jossey-Bass, For Dummies, J.K. Lasser, Bible, CliffsNotes, Frommer's, Unofficial Guide, Visual, Pfeiffer, Webster's New World, TheraScribe/Practice Planner |
Wiley, Wiley InterScience, Wiley-VCH, Wiley-Liss |
Wiley; author franchises including Hughes-Hallett: calculus; Halliday/Resnick/Walker: physics; de Blij: geography; Schermerhorn: management; Cutnell: physics; Solomons: organic chemistry; Tortora: anatomy and physiology; Kieso/Weygandt/Kimmel: accounting; Anton: calculus; Silberschatz: operating systems; Callister: material science
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Global revenues up 48%, including acquisitions
Acquired Hungry Minds, Wrightbooks, and Frank J. Fabozzi Publishing; after fiscal year-end, acquired approximately 250 titles from Prentice Hall Direct
Published more than 1,300 titles, including The Professional Chef, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice, Windows XP For Dummies, and Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia by Christopher Byron
Launched online products including ExpressExec management books and TheraForms downloadable forms from Wiley's practice management books
Gained market share with all major accounts
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Global revenues up 7%
Continued to build Wiley InterScience, our profitable online service; average daily user sessions nearly doubled
Expanded the functionality of Wiley InterScience with new features such as TNM MobileEdition; increased its content with OnlineBooks chapters, new reference works, and new journals
Continued to drive usage of online content through the CrossRef linking service; established additional linking agreements
Published more than 400 books and reference works
Acquired A&M Publishing Ltd. and GIT Verlag GmbH
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Global revenues up 5%
Rolled out a strong frontlist, publishing more than 130 textbooks and educational packages
Acquired business, earth and biological sciences, foreign
language, mathematics, nutrition, and psychology titles from Thomson Learning
Continued our migration toward an electronic environment with Web-based products such as eGrade and Calculus Machina
Achieved strong sales growth in Europe, Australia, and Canada |
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Worldwide demand growth for must-have professional, business, technical, and consumer information
Increased penetration of global markets as a result of coordinated product development, sales, and marketing
Growth of online bookselling, which generates incremental sales of Wiley's backlist
Emerging demand in library, professional, and consumer markets for digital content, such as downloadable ebooks and productivity tools and online services and knowledge repositories
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Worldwide demand for scientific, technical, and medical information, which is increasingly Web accessible
Improved electronic functionality, which is driving increased usage
Increased penetration of developing markets, particularly in Asia |
Favorable demographics, including increased undergraduate and graduate school enrollments
Growth in lifelong learning
Positive impact of technology on teaching and learning, creating demand for Web-based products |

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