Wiley Announces Online Books Agreement with YBP Library Services

["Molnar, Amy - Hoboken" <amolnar@wiley.com>]

Wiley Announces Online Books Agreement with YBP Library Services
Collaboration ensures seamless access to Wiley's vast Online 
Books collection

Hoboken, N.J. - January 23, 2009 - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: 
JWa), (NYSE: JWb), today announced a new agreement with YBP 
Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company and the world's 
largest provider of materials to academic libraries, by which 
nearly 7,000 Online Books will be available on YBP's main 
collection planning and acquisitions tool, GOBI  (Global Online 
Bibliographic Information).

Under the agreement, YBP will add Wiley's full range of online 
books, book series, and online reference works to its GOBI 
database, enabling YBP's library customers to view and select 
online books alongside print and e-books, with no change to the 
library's existing workflow. The result will be a fully 
integrated library acquisition process, from selection and 
profiling to ordering and invoicing.

'We're very excited about this partnership,' said Reed Elfenbein, 
VP, Global Sales and Marketing, at Wiley-Blackwell. 'YBP has a 
reputation for excellent customer service and long-standing 
relationships with all types of libraries, which will ensure the 
broadest possible reach for our content. We have witnessed in the 
past year an intensifying interest in online book content which 
makes it essential for librarians to be able to acquire this 
format seamlessly and we are delighted to now offer this 
capability in partnership with YBP.'

Wiley's expansive Online Books program comprises high-quality 
titles published from the 1940s to the present. The program 
consists of books in the life sciences, physical sciences, 
medicine, engineering, social sciences and humanities and 
includes ground-breaking multi-volume book series and essential 
reference titles available on Wiley InterScience.

The deal marks a milestone in the industry, making Wiley the 
first large publisher to fully integrate its entire list of 
online research books with one of the leading academic library 
book distributors in the country. The partnership was formed to 
address the growing need of libraries to discover and order book 
content in the format of their choice using one consolidated 
book-purchasing channel.

  'YBP is excited to expand our e-content offering with Wiley's 
highly respected collection of online monographs and reference 
works,' noted Linda Gagnon, Senior Vice President, eContent 
Integration and Business Development, YBP Library Services. 'Our 
customers want format choices and we are pleased to integrate 
Wiley's Online Books format into GOBI collection development and 
acquisitions tools, where it lives naturally next to its print 
and ebook counterparts.'

'Collaborating with Wiley will help YBP Library Services fulfill 
its mission to deliver the most respected and highest-quality 
book content to academic libraries across the US regardless of 
medium,' said George Coe, President, Library and Educational, at 
Baker & Taylor. 'We welcome the alliance and look forward to a 
productive association.'

Wiley plans to add approximately between 1500 and 2000 newly 
published titles each year. To review the list of titles 
available, or to inquire about access to Online Books on Wiley 
InterScience, please visit: 
www.interscience.wiley.com/onlinebooks or www.gobi3.com.