Wiley-Blackwell: 2,000 More Online Books Available on Wiley InterScience

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Wiley-Blackwell to Make 2,000 More OnlineBooks(tm) Available on Wiley
InterScience(r) Blackwell Publishing books online for the first time

Hoboken, N.J., December 3, 2007-Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific,
technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., is launching a new digitization initiative which will soon make
2,000 additional books online for the first time and accessible to
librarians, informationprofessionals, academics, researchers and students
worldwide.

Fifteen-hundred titles from Blackwell Publishing, 400 titles from
Wiley-VCH, and several hundred book series volumes, such as the Novartis
Foundation Symposia series, the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
series, and the Wiley Statistics and Probability Series will appear on
Wiley InterScience(r)
(www.interscience.wiley.com)
commencing in December 2007.

Wiley InterScience(r) is the online content delivery platform from John
Wiley & Sons, which acquired Blackwell Publishing in February 2007.  The
digitization and availability for licensing of 1,500 Blackwell books is a
key immediate customer benefit of the integration of the two companies.

"With the recent merger, putting Blackwell's books online was an obvious
next step," says Philip Carpenter, Managing Director, Social Sciences and
Humanities, Wiley-Blackwell.  "We are pleased to be able to deliver the
latest and most sought-after scholarly and professional titles as part of
the already popular Wiley InterScience(r) OnlineBooks(tm) package," he
continued.

Among the 2,000 additional books will be leading titles in clinical and
evidence-based medicine, life science, physics, chemistry, material
science, social science and the humanities. "No other publisher has the
breadth of online books that Wiley-Blackwell has and can serve such a
broad range of research needs," noted Steven Miron, Managing Director,
Physical Sciences, "We have also led the way with a wide range of access
and purchase options that have proved tremendously popular with our
customers."

The latest collection includes works from world-renowned scholars and
theorists, such as philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sir Anthony Kenny,
and theologist, Alister McGrath. Featured authors also include Nobel
Laureates Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Gerhard Ertl, and Robert Grubbs, as well
as a host of other internationally recognized chemists, physicists, and
life and medical scientists.

This launch is a significant expansion to the already robust collection of
OnlineBooks(tm) on Wiley InterScience(r), bringing the total number of
available titles to 5,000 advanced texts, leading works, reference and
scholarly books and book series in the professional, medical and
scientific fields.

Wiley InterScience(r) OnlineBooks(tm) offers free access, indexes, table
of contents and chapter summaries, and it provides full text access in PDF
format to subscribers. Non-subscribers can also purchase book chapters as
pay-per-view downloads, available for a modest one-time fee. Fully
integrated into Wiley InterScience(r) OnlineBooks(tm) allow for cross
product searching or searching across a single book series.  To view title
lists and prices for OnlineBooks(tm), or to subscribe, please visit the
website at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/onlinebooks.

About Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell was formed in February 2007 as a result of the acquisition
of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and its merger
with Wiley's Scientific, Technical, and Medical business. Together, the
companies have created a global publishing business with deep strength in
every major academic and professional field. Wiley-Blackwell publishes
approximately 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive
collection of books with global appeal. For more information on
Wiley-Blackwell, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com or
http://interscience.wiley.com.

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