Wiley-Blackwell Forms Book Publishing Partnership with ISTE

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Wiley-Blackwell Forms Book Publishing Partnership with ISTE

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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