HIGHER EDUCATION

Products

• Educational materials in all media for two- and four-year colleges and universities, the for-profit career/college market, and online learning.

Customers

• Undergraduate, graduate, and advanced placement students, educators, and lifelong learners worldwide.

Distribution

• Multiple channels including college bookstores, online booksellers, and direct sales to customers.

Key Brands/Franchises

• Wiley, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, Business Extra Select, Jacaranda.

Fiscal Year 2004 Highlights

• Increased our global Higher Education revenue by 8% to $190 million, or 4% excluding foreign exchange gains. Programs in the sciences and social sciences helped drive results.
• Benefited from the strong performance of top-selling titles such as Tortora/Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, 10th edition; Kieso/Intermediate Accounting, 11th edition; Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso/Financial Accounting, 3rd edition; Solomons/Organic Chemistry, 8th edition; Huffman/Psychology in Action, 7th edition; Connally, Hughes-Hallett, and Gleason/Functions Modeling Change, 2nd edition; and Cutnell and Johnson/Physics, 6th edition.
• Increased our sales of Professional/Trade and STM publications into the higher education market, while also increasing our sales of Higher Education titles into the professional/trade markets.
• Continued our migration to online delivery with the introduction of eGrade Plus, a powerful platform designed to deliver integrated content that is organized around teaching and learning activities.
• Launched Wiley Business Extra Select, an online custom courseware program that allows instructors to combine Wiley business textbooks and learning materials with content from sources such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business School, Ivey Cases, and Fortune Inc.
• Expanded our program of paperback Core Concept textbooks that sell at lower prices than traditional texts.
• Formed an alliance with Aplia to integrate its Web-based courseware with an intermediate economics textbook planned for publication in fiscal year 2006. The digital textbook and problem sets will be refreshed as often as once a week as interest rates and other economic factors change.
• Wiley Australia won Secondary Publisher of the Year for the fourth consecutive year and Tertiary Publisher of the Year for the third year in a row.