About John Wiley & Sons


Founded:
1807 by Charles Wiley. Company was formally named by Charles's son, John, after he took over the business in 1826. A historical timeline with photos from 1807 to the present day is available at Wiley's site.

President/CEO:
Charles R. Ellis

Description:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishes books, journals, and electronic products for the educational, professional, scientific, technical, and consumer markets.

The oldest independent publisher in North America, Wiley is in the forefront of electronic publishing, with more than 200 products and services on disk, CD-ROM, or available by network. Wiley has 9,953 active book titles and 300 journals. The company publishes 1,000 new titles in a variety of formats each year. The company has approximately 1,700 employees worldwide.

Headquarters:
New York City. The company has U.S. publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in New York, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, and Illinois.

Global Enterprise:
A substantial portion of Wiley's business comes from international markets. In addition to our offices in the United States, Wiley has operations in Europe, Canada, Asia, and
Imprints:
Wiley, John Wiley & Sons, Wiley-Interscience, Interscience, Scripta Technica, Wiley-Liss, Wiley-QED, Wiley Law, and ValuSource.

Stock Exchanges/Ticker Symbols:
New York Stock Exchange, JW.A and JW.B.

Publishing Operations:
In the early years, Wiley was best known for the works of Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other 19th century American literary giants. But by the turn of the century, the company was established as a leading publisher of science and technology. Today's areas of specialization include the sciences, engineering, technology, mathematics, accounting, and business management, with a growing presence in law and general interest titles. The company publishes books, journals, and electronic products for the scientific, technical, educational, professional, and consumer markets. Our are committed to providing information in those formats most accessible to our readers and are taking advantage of the rapid advances in digital information technology to enhance the speed and flexibility with which print publications can be delivered as well as to develop a range of offerings in electronic formats.

Wiley serves four broad markets:

  • Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM)
  • Educational
  • Professional
  • Consumer

Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM): Through the Scientific, Technical, and Medical Division in New York and our European subsidiary located in England, Wiley is a premier publisher for students, researchers, academics, and practitioners worldwide in the life and medical sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and statistics, electrical engineering, computing, and the earth and environmental sciences. The company publishes more than 225 STM journals, as well as encyclopedic reference works, graduate texts, and practical handbooks.

Educational: Wiley publishes textbooks and instructional packages (print and electronic) for undergraduate and graduate students in the United States and around the world. Publishing programs are targeted in areas of Wiley strength, including physical and life sciences, mathematics, engineering, and accounting, with a growing presence in business, economics, finance, hospitality, computing, foreign languages, and psychology.

Professional: Through its U.S. and European operations, Wiley publishes books, subscription products, and electronic products for professionals. Markets cover a range of professions in law, architecture, construction, accounting, hospitality, engineering, computing, and business.

Consumer: Wiley publishes quality nonfiction books and electronic products for a growing range of audiences, from preteens to professionals. Major subject categories include business, computers, science, and general interest.

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Last updated 25th August 1995 by: mab@npac.syr.edu