On June 1, 2023, Wiley’s Board of Directors approved a plan to divest certain businesses that we determined are non-core businesses. Those businesses are University Services, Wiley Edge, and CrossKnowledge. As of the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, we completed our plan to divest these businesses.

In accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 205, "Presentation of Financial Statements," we determined that the divestitures of University Services, Wiley Edge and CrossKnowledge each do not represent a strategic shift that will have a major effect on our consolidated results of operations, and therefore their results of operations were not reported as discontinued operations. We concluded that the businesses met all the requisite held-for-sale criteria as of June 1, 2023. Therefore, the related assets and liabilities were reclassified as held-for-sale on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position until the date of sale.


	Three Months Ended January 31,				Nine Months Ended January 31,
	2025		2024		2025		2024
CrossKnowledge	$	275	$	(5,782)	$	4,197	$	(56,159)
Wiley Edge	(15,566)		(20,676)		(14,778)		(20,676)
University Services	(639)		(25,946)		850		(101,412)
Tuition Manager	—		—		120		(1,500)
Sale of assets	—		—		(149)		—
Net loss on sale of businesses, assets, and impairment charges related to assets held-for-sale	$	(15,930)	$	(52,404)	$	(9,760)	$	(179,747)

On August 31, 2024, we completed the sale of CrossKnowledge, which was included in our Held for Sale or Sold segment, pursuant to a stock and asset purchase agreement (CrossKnowledge Agreement) with MS International Software, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (MS International). The selling price for CrossKnowledge at the date of sale, which was updated in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, had an estimated fair value of $3.0 million which consists of $1.8 million of contingent consideration in the form of two earnouts recorded at fair value (CrossKnowledge Earnouts), and $1.2 million of estimated working capital adjustments. The maximum amount of the CrossKnowledge Earnouts is $25.0 million.

As of January 31, 2025, $0.2 million of the CrossKnowledge Earnouts is reflected in Prepaid expenses and other current assets and $1.6 million is reflected in Other non-current assets in our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.

The pretax loss on sale, which was updated in the three months ended January 31, 2025, was $51.2 million after accounting for the assets sold, liabilities transferred upon sale, transaction costs, and the write-off of cumulative translation adjustments in earnings. In connection with the held-for-sale classification prior to the sale, we recognized cumulative impairment charges of $51.0 million on the remeasurement of the disposal group at the lower of carrying value or fair value less costs to sell, which included $55.4 million recognized in fiscal year 2024 and a reduction of $4.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025. Upon the completion of the sale, we recognized a net gain of $4.2 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2025 due to subsequent changes in the fair value less costs to sell, as well as changes in the carrying amount of the disposal group. We recognized a net gain of $0.3 million in the three months ended January 31, 2025 due to subsequent changes in the carrying amount of the disposal group.

On May 31, 2024, we completed the sale of Wiley Edge with the exception of its India operations which sold on August 31, 2024, which was included in our Held for Sale or Sold segment, pursuant to a stock and asset purchase agreement (Edge Agreement) with Inspirit Vulcan Bidco Limited, a private limited company incorporated in England & Wales (Inspirit). The selling price for Wiley Edge at the date of sale including India, which was updated during the three months ended January 31, 2025, had a fair value of $23.3 million paid in the form of: (i) cash of $10.0 million, of which $2.5 million is deferred, (ii) an unsecured promissory note with an initial aggregate principal amount of $13.3 million (Inspirit Seller Note), subject to customary working capital adjustments, and (iii) additional contingent consideration in the form of an earnout recorded at a fair value of zero (initially valued at $15.0 million) based on the gross profit targets during each of the three fiscal years in the period beginning May 1, 2024 and ending April 30, 2027 (Wiley Edge Earnout).

As of January 31, 2025, the Inspirit Seller Note is reflected in Other non-current assets in our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position. The Inspirit Seller Note matures on May 31, 2028 and is prepayable at par plus accrued interest at any time and also if certain conditions are met. The Inspirit Seller Note bears interest at the rate of 8% per annum commencing on May 31, 2024, increasing by 1% per annum each year on the anniversary of issuance. Interest income from the note receivable represents non operating income and is included in Other income (expense), net on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Net (Loss) Income.

The maximum Wiley Edge Earnout amount is $34.0 million. We elected to record the fair value of the Wiley Edge Earnout as of the date of the sale, and will update that fair value as applicable until settled. The fair value of the Wiley Edge Earnout at the time of the sale was based on a Monte Carlo simulation. This fair value was categorized as Level 3 within the FASB ASC Topic 820 fair value hierarchy. This method considers the terms and conditions in the Edge Agreement, our best estimates of forecasted gross profit for the Wiley Edge Earnout periods and simulates a range of gross profits over the applicable periods based on an estimate of gross profit volatility. The fair value of the Wiley Edge Earnout was estimated as the present value of the potential range of payouts averaged across the range of simulated gross profits using an estimated risk-adjusted discount rate for the simulated gross profits. The Wiley Edge Earnout amount is subject to change based on final results and calculations.

Due to changes in market conditions during the three months ended January 31, 2025 that negatively impacted placements and the outlook for the business, the forecasted gross profit for the earnout period was updated. Based on these changes, the updated gross profit forecast indicates that the gross profit for each of the earnout periods will be below the gross profit targets as defined in the Edge Agreement which would result in zero amount being paid to Wiley in each of the respective periods. Since the forecasted gross profit is a key input to the Monte Carlo simulation and the likelihood of the forecasted gross profit targets no longer being reached and being significantly reduced, we reduced the fair value of the Wiley Edge Earnout from $15.0 million at the time of sale to zero as of January 31, 2025.

The pretax loss on sale, which was updated in the three months ended January 31, 2025, was $34.2 million after accounting for the assets sold, liabilities transferred upon sale, transaction costs, and the write-off of cumulative translation adjustments in earnings. In connection with the held-for-sale classification, during fiscal year 2024, we recognized cumulative impairment charges of $19.4 million on the remeasurement of the disposal group at the lower of carrying value or fair value less costs to sell. Upon the completion of the sale, we recognized a net loss of $14.8 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2025 primarily due to subsequent changes in the fair value less costs to sell, partially offset by the sale of the India operations. We recognized a net loss of $15.6 million in the three months ended January 31, 2025 due to subsequent changes in the fair value less costs to sell.

On January 1, 2024, we completed the sale of University Services, which was included in our Held for Sale or Sold segment, pursuant to a Membership Interest and Asset Purchase Agreement with Academic Partnerships LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Academic Partnerships), and Education Services Upper Holdings Corp., a Delaware corporation. The pretax loss on sale, which was updated in the three months ended January 31, 2025, was $106.2 million after accounting for the assets sold, liabilities transferred upon sale, and transaction costs. We recognized a net gain of $0.9 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2025 due to third-party customer consents and working capital adjustments, partially offset by subsequent changes in the costs to sell. We recognized a net loss of $0.6 million in the three months ended January 31, 2025 due to subsequent changes in the costs to sell.

On May 31, 2023, we completed the sale of our tuition manager business (Tuition Manager), which was included in our Held for Sale or Sold segment. The pretax loss on sale was $1.4 million after accounting for the assets sold, liabilities transferred upon sale, and transaction costs, which was reduced during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 due to additional cash received after the date of sale of $0.1 million.


	Cross Knowledge		Wiley Edge		Total
Assets held-for-sale:
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	6,305	$	9,887	$	16,192
Accounts receivable, net	12,914		13,897		26,811
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	3,780		5,548		9,328
Valuation allowance	(17,909)		—		(17,909)
Total current assets held-for-sale	$	5,090	$	29,332	$	34,422

Technology, property and equipment, net	3,786		2,888		6,674
Intangible assets, net	17,777		34,612		52,389
Operating lease right-of-use assets	1,091		1,008		2,099
Other non-current assets	14,877		53		14,930
Valuation allowance	(37,531)		(19,401)		(56,932)
Total non-current assets held-for-sale	$	—	$	19,160	$	19,160

Liabilities held-for-sale:
Current liabilities
Accounts payable	$	494	$	—	$	494
Accrued royalties	268		—		268
Contract liabilities	16,796		—		16,796
Accrued employment costs	7,805		3,990		11,795
Short-term portion of operating lease liabilities	319		468		787
Other accrued liabilities	2,762		4,730		7,492
Total current liabilities held-for-sale	$	28,444	$	9,188	$	37,632

Accrued pension liability	1,037		—		1,037
Deferred income tax liabilities	4,420		4,448		8,868
Operating lease liabilities	251		159		410
Other long-term liabilities	694		228		922
Total long-term liabilities held-for-sale	$	6,402	$	4,835	$	11,237