Email News Release: Wiley Expands STM Publishing in Asia

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Wiley Expands STM Publishing in Asia
Announces New STM Publishing Director for Asia Pacific

Hoboken, N.J., November 29, 2005 -John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa) 
(NYSE: JWb), announced today plans for the creation of a new scientific, 
technical, and medical (STM) publishing program to be located at Wiley's 
Asian headquarters in Singapore.

Wiley currently has three STM publishing programs located in Hoboken, New 
Jersey; Chichester, England; and Weinheim, Germany.  The Asian STM 
publishing program, which is scheduled to launch in early 2006, will 
become an integral part of Wiley's global STM operations and will further 
enhance the role of Wiley Asia, the company's already extensive sales and 
marketing presence in the region.  The new program will publish book and 
journal content from Asia for a worldwide audience, embracing Wiley's 
global STM publishing strategies and standards to benefit from Asia's 
recent emergence as an important source of STM content.  Another goal of 
the initiative is to strengthen coverage of Asian content in existing 
Wiley publications from the U.S., U.K., and Germany.

"We look forward to expanding our STM editorial presence in Asia," said 
Steve Miron, Vice President, Wiley Asia and General Manager for Global STM 
Books. "It is an area where we see tremendous publishing and market 
opportunities."

Wiley plans to increase the number of Asia-based members on the editorial 
boards of its journals and major reference works, and to strengthen and 
expand relationships with Asian scientific communities and scholarly 
societies. The company has already begun to venture into Asia-based 
journal publishing with the Chinese Journal of Chemistry, which is being 
distributed on behalf of the Chinese Chemical Society; Chemistry: An Asian 
Journal, a new title to be published jointly by Wiley-VCH and the German 
Chemistry Society (GDCh), and the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian 
Chemical Societies; and The Chemical Record, which is managed by Wiley’s 
Tokyo office.

In connection with the expansion of this program, Wiley announced that 
Ann-Marie Halligan would be assuming the newly created position of STM 
Publishing Director, Asia Pacific.  She will be based in Wiley Asia 
headquarters in Singapore, beginning February 2006.  Ms. Halligan, who 
began her career at Wiley in 1985, most recently held the position of 
Editorial Director for Wiley's Communications and Engineering Technology 
and Statistics program located in the company's offices in Chichester. In 
the coming year, Wiley will develop an editorial staff in the region 
through the appointment of editors in China, Taiwan, Japan, and India.

"We are delighted that Ann-Marie Halligan will assume the position of STM 
Publishing Director," Miron added. "She has expert knowledge of Wiley 
publishing systems, having built a number of successful book and journal 
publishing programs over the years, and is ideally suited to this new 
position."

The majority of Wiley's STM content is available both in print and online 
through Wiley InterScience, the company's online publishing platform. 
Since its commercial launch in January 1999, Wiley InterScience 
(www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a world-leading 
Internet resource for quality research material promoting discovery across 
the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. 
Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-have content 
from almost 2000 journals, books, reference works, databases, and Current 
Protocols laboratory manuals.

About Wiley

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have content and 
services to customers worldwide. Its core businesses include scientific, 
technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products 
and services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; 
and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and 
lifelong learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution 
centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The 
Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and 
JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.


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