Hoboken, NJ, October 9, 2007– Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced an agreement with ISTE Ltd. to become its exclusive co-publisher in the Americas, Asia, and other territories worldwide, effective January 2008.
Under the agreement, Wiley-Blackwell and ISTE, the English language division of Hermes Science & Lavoisier, will co-publish approximately 60 books per year in the fields of electrical, civil, and mechanical engineering; information and communication technology; numerical methods; materials science; digital signal and image processing; and networks. Thirty-four new titles will be available in the first quarter of 2008. In addition to completely new titles, the agreement includes updated and expanded English-language versions of highly-regarded books originally published in French. Wiley-Blackwell will be responsible for all sales activities for these jointly branded titles in its territories, including marketing and distribution. Wiley-Blackwell will also manage eBook and online sales of the titles via the Wiley InterScience platform.
“We are excited to be working with a family-run business whose consistent quality and focus complements our own publishing strengths and strategy,” said Michael Forster, Vice President and Associate Publishing Director, Physical Sciences, Wiley-Blackwell.
“By partnering with Wiley-Blackwell, ISTE will be better able to attain its objective of producing innovative titles that will reach a wider audience of academics, researchers, and industrial engineers,” said Sami Menasce, Chairman and Managing Director, ISTE Ltd.
Wiley-Blackwell will also be distributing select backlist titles, including such titles as Structural Health Monitoring, Free-Space Optics, Particle Swarm Optimization, Protection of Electrical Networks, Graphs and Networks, Robot Manipulators, Organic Materials in Civil Engineering, Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement, and Multimedia Multicast on the Internet.
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Wiley-Blackwell was formed in February 2007 as a result of the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and its merger with Wiley’s Scientific, Technical, and Medical business. Together, the companies have created a global publishing business with deep strength in every major academic and professional field. Wiley-Blackwell publishes approximately 1,250 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books with global appeal. For more information on Wiley-Blackwell, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com or http://interscience.wiley.com.