John Wiley & Sons 10-Q Released
My publisher, John Wiley & Sons, released its 10-Q today.
Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 of $388.6 million increased 48% from $263.4 million in the prior year’s first quarter, or 46% excluding the favorable impact of foreign exchange. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (”Blackwell”), which was acquired on February 2, 2007, [...]
Wiley Publisher Joe Wikert Wins Blogging Award
Wiley VP and Publisher (ok, and my boss) Joe Wikert has won Book Chronicle Blog’s first annual Litty Award for best publishing blog. Not bad for someone who started blogging as the result of a challenge from Robert Scoble - in fact it might have been required as part of our publishing Naked Conversations [...]
Wiley’s Blackwell Becomes World’s First CarbonNeutral Publisher
Blackwell, acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February has become the world’s first CarbonNeutral publisher.
In order to neutralize the unavoidable CO2 produced by Blackwell Publishing’s activities we are supporting a range of Offset Projects managed by The CarbonNeutral Company. These include renewable energy, energy efficiency and forestry projects that will contribute [...]
John Wiley and Sons Bicentennial Video Now Online
It is simply amazing to work for a company that has been publishing books for 2 centuries, and I am humbled to know that I am a part of an organization that published the likes of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and Herman Mellville among many others.
The video below was show at our recent bicentennial celebrations [...]
