Overview
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Wiley) is a global publishing and knowledge-services company founded in 1807. Its businesses focus on Research—including scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, content, and research services—and Learning, which includes academic and professional books, digital courseware, and assessments. Wiley states its mission is to transform knowledge into actionable intelligence for researchers, educators, and professionals.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026, Wiley reported net revenue of approximately $1.68 billion. Its operations are primarily in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional offices in Germany, India, and Jordan; about 49% of FY2026 revenue came from outside the United States. Wiley’s website describes a workforce of more than 7,000 colleagues and operations in over 22 countries, though it does not specify a date for those figures.[7][8][9][6] [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][6]
Products & services
Wiley’s products include more than 1,900 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, alongside research content and digital publishing services. Journals use subscription, transformational (“read and publish”) and Open Access models; the latter includes both Hybrid Open Access within subscription journals and Gold Open Access journals. About 96% of FY2026 Research revenue came from digital and online products and services.[9][10][11]
Research services include journal production and content hosting, submission and peer-review support, editorial and copy-editing services, and publishing technology. Wiley’s Atypon platform supports publishers’ content hosting and publishing workflows. Wiley also licenses scholarly and scientific content for corporate and AI uses, and offers research content through Wiley Online Library.[12][13][14][15]
Learning products include print and digital books, digital courseware and assessment services. WileyPLUS is courseware that provides adaptive assignments, assessment and progress analytics, practice materials, e-textbooks and learning-management-system integration; the availability of adaptive assignments varies by course. Wiley’s Sybex range includes IT certification study materials and online test banks.[16][17][18][19]
In FY2026, Research generated approximately 67% of Wiley’s $1.677 billion revenue, while Learning generated approximately 33%; Research Publishing alone accounted for about 58%. These shares are calculated from reported segment revenue.[20][20][20] [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][20][20][14][15][17][18][19]
Geographic presence
In FY2026, approximately 49% of John Wiley & Sons’ revenue came from outside the United States; the company did not disclose a more detailed country or regional revenue breakdown.[8] Its operations are primarily in the United States and United Kingdom, with additional offices in Germany, India, and Jordan, and activities across Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.[8][21]
The company lists facilities in New Jersey, Indiana, and North Carolina in the United States, and in England, Germany, India, China, Jordan, Brazil, and Greece. Its publishing centers are in Australia, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[22][23] [8][21][22][23]
Business segments
For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026, John Wiley & Sons reported two revenue-generating operating segments: Research and Learning. Research publishes scientific, technical and medical journals and provides related content platforms and publishing solutions, spanning physical sciences and engineering, health sciences, social sciences and humanities, and life sciences. It represented approximately 67% of consolidated revenue.[16][9]
Learning provides scientific, professional and education books in print and digital formats, digital courseware, and assessment services; it accounted for approximately the remaining one-third of revenue.[16][9] The company also reported a “Held for Sale or Sold” segment, primarily covering non-core businesses held for sale or sold; it generated no FY2026 segment revenue because the businesses in it had been sold before the fiscal year began.[16][24] Corporate is reported separately as an expense category rather than an operating segment, and Academic and Professional are Learning reporting units rather than separate revenue segments.[16][25] [16][9][24][25]
Company history
Charles Wiley opened a printing shop in Manhattan in 1807, and the business began publishing in 1814. His son John took over in 1826; in 1848 the company broadened its publishing beyond its original focus.[26] Wiley expanded its scientific publishing operations by integrating German publisher VCH in 1996 and launched its online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience, in 1997.[27]
A major expansion came in 2007, when Wiley completed its acquisition of Blackwell Publishing, enlarging its scholarly publishing business.[28] The company acquired open-access publisher Hindawi in 2021 and sold Wiley University Services to Academic Partnerships in 2024.[29][30] Wiley announced its acquisition of Emerald Publishing in 2026.[31] [32][26][27][28][29][30][31]
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