Journal content delivery to personal and wireless handheld devices

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Wiley and American Cancer Society Launch Cancer MobileEditiontm Service Delivers Journal Content to Personal and Wireless Handheld Devices

New York, NY Dec. 4, 2000. The American Cancer Society and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., global publishers, announced today the launch of Cancer MobileEdition, an online service that delivers the Tables of Contents and Abstracts from the latest issues of Cancer and Cancer Cytopathology to personal and wireless handheld devices and Web-enabled phones.

Cancer is the flagship journal of the American Cancer Society, based in Atlanta, GA., and is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., for the Society. The journal, which is available in print and online at www.interscience.wiley.com, is a primary resource for scientific articles related to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and research.

MobileEdition is a new service of Wiley InterScience, Wiley's online publishing business. Cancer is the first Wiley journal to be delivered via this new service. MobileEdition is enabled through software designed by AvantGo, a mobile Internet company, which is now bundled on many Palm OS and Windows CE based handheld computers, as well as Internet-enabled phones. Readers can register for this service free of charge through the Wiley InterScience online service at www3.interscience.wiley.com/mobile_edition or at the AvantGo mobile Internet service "Channels Page" at www.avantgo.com. Updates will be automatically delivered to readers' machines with each new issue of the journal, 30 times a year.

"We are pleased to add delivery of Table of Contents and Abstracts published in Cancer to mobile handheld computers. This addition complements the American Cancer Society's array of information delivery systems," said Harmon J. Eyre, M.D., Executive Vice President for Research and Medical Affairs, American Cancer Society. We trust that this new technology will help further the American Cancer Society's mission to educate the public as well as professionals in the
field of oncology."

"Cancer MobileEdition advances our mission of delivering critical scientific, technical and medical information directly to researchers and health care professionals, rapidly and in a variety of convenient formats" said Eric Swanson, Senior Vice President of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. "Cancer MobileEdition represents a union of innovative electronic technology and publishing expertise. We will be serving our customers better and furthering the mission of our publishing partner, the American Cancer Society, to educate us all about efforts to prevent and cure cancer."

The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service.

The AvantGo mobile Internet service provides free interactive and personalized content and applications to people with handheld devices based on the Palm OS and Windows CE platforms, as well as Internet-enabled phones. Using a wireless, real-time connection or via desktop synchronization, AvantGo users can access the web directly from their mobile devices or they can select from over 400 content channels that have been optimized for mobile devices. Optimized channels include news, stock quotes, flight schedules, movie listings, restaurant reviews, maps, weather and much more from brand-name content providers and e-businesses. The free mobile Internet service is available at www.avantgo.com.

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is a global publisher of print and electronic products specializing in ; scientific, technical, and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as life long learners. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company's Class A and Class B shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb, respectively. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at www.wiley.com.