Wiley

US-based publisher John Wiley specialises in print and electronic products for the professional, consumer, scientific, technical and higher education markets.

In contrast to McGraw-Hill it hasn't diversified out of publishing. Prominent competitors are Kluwer, Thomson and Elsevier.

     the group 

Wiley dates from 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a printing, publishing and bookselling business in Manhattan, going on to publish authors such as writers such as Washington Irving (he was a partner with Cornelius van Winkle in the 1820s), James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Wiley was in partnership with George Putnam for a decade but after 1848 came to specialise in science and technology publishing. Putnam's departure reflected disagreement about copyright: Wiley considered that the partnership couldn't afford to be the only American publisher to pay royalties to foreign authors and still compete in the US market.

In the 1960s Wiley expanded overseas (an Australian subsidiary was established in 1963) and like its competitors the company went on the acqusition trail, buying niche book and journal publishers such as Scripta-Technica and the German VCH group before buying major educational publishing interests from Pearson and Thomson.

An indication of the group's history is here.

     imprints 

Major imprints are identified here.







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