Wiley redundancies: correction
Further to last week's story about a number of redundancies at John Wiley & Sons, Wiley has issued a clarification that the job losses will only affect its Wiley-Blackwell division.'Wiley-Blackwell...
Wiley confirms local redundancies in STM division
John Wiley & Sons has confirmed three positions in its Melbourne office have been made redundant. The redundancies are the result of a plan to centralise the marketing and...
Wiley announces redundancies in Melbourne office
Educational publisher John Wiley & Sons has announced several redundancies in its Melbourne office, as part of a structural change that also affects operations in the United Kingdom. ‘This week,...
Wiley signs with Attributor
John Wiley has signed up with Attributor, an online tracking service which helps to prevent unlawful use of its authors' content on the web. Wiley's director of corporate communications, Susan...
In brief
Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In his first posts the former...
Donoughue retires from Wiley
As foreshadowed in an announcement last year, Peter Donoughue has now retired as managing director of Wiley Australia. Wiley staff wish him 'every happiness in his retirement in Melbourne'. Donoughue will be doing...
Wiley overall revenue up 36%
John Wiley & Sons has announced that revenue for the fiscal year 2008 ‘increased 36% over the previous year to US$1.7 billion' (A$1.78 billion). Revenue from Blackwell, which the company...
Beaumont appointed as CEO of Five Mile Press
The Five Mile Press has announced the appointment of Lesley Beaumont to the position of CEO. David Horgan, the previous CEO and founder of The Five Mile Press, will be staying...
Donoughue to retire from Wiley; Linaker to become C.O.O
Peter Donoughue has announced that he will be retiring as MD of John Wiley & Sons Australia in August 2008. As part of the succession plan, Wiley's current information services...
ACBA conference
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) held its annual conference in Sydney last week. With over 60 delegates and ‘some great speakers', outgoing ACBA president Rolf Wilkens of the Swinburne...
Houghton Mifflin to buy Harcourt US
The US schools publishing businesses of Harcourt have been sold to competitor Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep for US$4 billion (A$4.4 billion). The purchase concludes the sale by Reed Elsevier of Harcourt Education, following...
Wiley’s 200th a ‘record year’
As it celebrates 200 years in business, John Wiley & Sons has announced record annual results for 2006-07, topping US$1 billion in global revenue for the second year in a...
Wiley celebrates 200 years in style
The Australian arm of John Wiley & Sons celebrated its parent company's 200th birthday at a special celebratory dinner last night at Brisbane's Marriott Hotel. The dinner, for 135 guests, was attended...
Useful tips for subscribers #8: ‘WBN for Dummies’
If you haven't yet discovered all the useful new features of the online WBN, why not grab hold of a FREE copy of Weekly Book Newsletter for Dummies?Written by the...
John Wiley & Sons acquires Blackwell Publishing
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin on Monday, John Wiley & Sons has entered into a ‘definitive agreement' to buy Blackwell Publishing, at a cost of £572 million (A$1.35...
Wiley buys Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons has entered into a ‘definitive agreement' to buy Blackwell Publishing, at a cost of £572 million (A$1.35 billion).The acquisition will significantly increase Wiley's share of the...
Wiley annual results
John Wiley & Sons has released financial results for the year ending 30 April, showing that its global sales increased eight percent on 2004-05, with revenue topping US$1 billion (A$1.3...