Wiley: Landmarks
Landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
- Beginnings (1807)
- Incorporation (1875)
- Overseas expansion (1959)
- Survival through acquisition (1989)
Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.
Beginnings
1807 Charles Wiley founds printery, bookshop and publishing house in Manhattan
1814 forms partnership with Cornelius Van Winkle, later publishes work by Washington Irving
1820 focuses on publishing and bookselling
1821 publishes James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy
1826 John Wiley inherits publishing business
1836 partnership with George Putnam
1848 Putnam leaves partnership, subsequently founds Putnams
1852 alliance with UK publisher Parry & Company
Incorporation
1875 John Wiley & Son incorporated
1891 death of John Wiley
1895 alliance with UK publisher Chapman & Hall
Overseas expansion
1959 Wiley establishes branch in UK
1961 buys Interscience Publishers
1963 establishes branch in Australia
1965 establishes branch in India
1968 establishes branch in Canada
1972 establishes Halsted Press
1976 buys Xerox's College Publishing Division
1977 buys Ronald Press, St Clair Press and Professional Publications - accounting publishers
1982 buys Wilson Learning Coporation
1984 buys Scripta-Technica scientific journals publisher and translator
Survival through acquisition?
1989 buys Alan R. Liss
1991 buys James Publishing Group and Chancery Law Publishing
1993 buys earth and environmental sciences titles of Belhaven Press
1993 buys QED Information Services
1994 buys accounting software specialist ValuSource
1994 buys publishing arm of Executive Enterprises
1996 buys Clinical Psychology Publishing
1996 buys newsletters from Technical Insights and Lyda Associates
1996 buys 90% interest in VCH scientific publishing group for US$99m
1997 sells humanities book/journal unit and Akademie Verlag to Munich-based Oldenbourg Verlag
1997 sells Wiley Law Publications division to Kluwer for US$26m
1997 buys Van Nostrand Reinhold for US$28m from Thomson
1997 buys Preservation Press
1998 buys publishing programs of Chronimed
1998 buys most of Huthig Publishing Group
1998 buys publishing arm of Hewin International
1998 becomes publisher of American Cancer Society's Cancer journal
1999 buys most of Pearson Education's college textbook and instructional package division for US$58m
1999 buys J.K. Lasser tax and financial guides from IDG
1999 Wiley buys book interests of German Materials Science Society
1999 buys Jossey-Bass from Pearson for US$82m
2000 buys majority interest in Capstone Publishing
2001 buys Australian publisher Wrightbooks
2001 buys finance specialist Frank J. Fabozzi Publishing
2001 buys Hungry Minds from IDG for US$182m
2006 agrees to acquire Blackwell Publishing for £572m