John Wiley is proposing to close its Edinburgh facility in June 2013, expanding its outsourcing to Asia. Fifty staff handling content management for journals are entering collective consultation over their jobs.

Wiley's content management operations already have a substantial presence in Singapore.

Steve Miron, senior vice...

A second round of redundancies has hit the book business with cuts this week at New Hollland and Transworld's Distribution Centre, and proposed job losses at John Wiley. But recruitment consultants spoken to by The Bookseller suggested that these were more "tweaks" rather than a "second wave of depression"....

In what was described as a "shot across the bow" of digital pirates, six global publishers, including John Wiley, Cengage and McGraw-Hill, have obtained an injunction against Swiss-based Rapidshare ordering the company to prevent illegal file sharing of the 148 copyright-protected works cited in the lawsuit.

The judgment was...

John Wiley's full-year sales dropped 3.7% in the year ended 30th April, while its pretax profit rose by 2%. The decline in sales was particularly marked at its Professional and Trade division, though Wiley said sales at its EMEA and Canada operations showed "modest growth".

Across the group revenue was $1.61bn, compared...