1. Springer & Kluwer - One Company Syed Hasan, Springer Susan Pastore, Kluwer New Orleans, March 2004 ICOLC 2004

2. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Background of Springer-Verlag Facts and Figures The new “Springer” Agenda Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers The future Questions and Answers

3. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Background of Springer-Verlag

4. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Springer-Verlag: A Short History 1842 Foundation in Berlin by Julius Springer from 1960International Expansion: Springer-Verlag New York (1964), London (1983), Tokyo (1983), Paris (1986), Hong Kong (1986) January 1999Purchase of the Springer Group of Companies by Bertelsmann Foundation of BertelsmannSpringer Science Business Media May 2003Purchase of BertelsmannSpringer by Cinven + Candover October 2003Renamed Springer Science + Business Media 2004New Board of Directors announced for Springer Science + Business Media

5. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Imprints and Distribution Arrangements

6. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers

7. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Kluwer Academic Publishers: A Short History 1889 A.E. Kluwer founded his own publishing house in Holland. Nearly a century of gradual expansion follows 1970sCompany acquires Martinus Nijhoff Kluwer acquires Dr. W. Junk Publishers noted for its biological science titles Kluwer acquires D. Reidel Publishing, a leading publisher noted for its astronomy, physical sciences, mathematics and philosophy, leading to the creation of the current day Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998Kluwer acquires Plenum Publishers and the prestigious Russian program Kluwer acquires Chapman & Hall Publishers 2000Kluwer acquires Baltzer journals 2003Candover & Cinven acquires Kluwer Academic Publishers Candover & Cinven acquires Bertelsmann Springer creating Springer Science + Business Media

8. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans

9. Facts and Figures

10. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans International Presence with focus on the Americas, Europe and Asia 1,500 Employees Over 500 Journals in print and electronic form 2,500 books published annually Over 22,500 Books in Print SPRINGER TODAY 1,900 eBooks KLUWER TODAY 600 Employees 800 eBooks 15,000 Books in Print, 5000 Print on Demand 1,200 books published annually Over 670 Journals in print and electronic form

11. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans

12. Total: 52 Worldwide Consortia arrangements 2003: 170 2002: 167 2001: 68 2003: 100 2002: 66 2001: 45 2000: 352000: 25 2000: 5 1999: 12

13. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Overview # of Journals Over 500 Over 670 # of Articles avail. 300,000+ 250,000+ 2003 Article downloads 10,000,000 7,000,000 Back issues as of 1996 as of 1997

14. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Usage Trends

15. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans SV-London SV-New York SV- Heidelberg SV-Vienna Other Springer-Verlag Offices in Paris, Milano, New Delhi, Hong Kong SV-Tokyo Other Companies include Key Curriculum Press-Berkeley, Princeton Architecture Press- New York, Steinkopff- Darmstadt, Physica-Verlag- Heidelberg, Total: 52 Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Publishing Companies everywhere KAP-New York KAP-Boston KAP-London KAP-Taipei KAP-Dortrecht KAP-Moscow

16. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans The new “Springer”

17. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans + Springer & Kluwer - One Company

18. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans New Global Structure/Members

19. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Peter Hendriks Sales & Marketing Prior to Springer: CEO KAP Dr. Ulrich Vest CFO Prior to Springer: Member of the Board BS Martin Mos COO Prior to Springer: CFO Elsevier Science Rüdiger Gebauer STM Publishing Prior to Springer: Deputy MD BS Derk Haank CEO Prior to Springer: CEO Reed Elsevier Gregor Karolus Human Resources STM Board Members

20. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans  Unified Platform – Goal: December 2004  Seamless roll-out of one Global Integrated Site (Goal: end 2004)  Added functionality and enhancements – librarian input -Keyword Alerting -Personalized Features -Full Search Engine  Usage Reporting Upgrades (Counter Compliant) – librarian input  Increased Reliability-Multiple servers, guaranteed availability  Cross Reference Linking-KAP and SV are charter members of CrossRef Platform

21. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Contracts/Agreements  ALL current SV and KAP contracts will be honored to expiration date  Contracts up for renewal will be rolled into new “Springer” arrangements  Negotiations for renewal agreements for 2005 will start early fall 2004 Pricing  No price increases will occur as a result of the merger  2005 journal prices will be available in July 2004  All current price caps and consortia contracts will be honored Policies

22. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Commitment to the Customer  Dedicated business support staff for customer service issues  1-800 line and online support  Expanded sales team-Experienced in STM arena  Informational e-mails or alerts on a timely basis  Customer input option on website The customer comes first.

23. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans The future

24. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Digitizing Content:  The Company is committed to digitizing all content- Over 12 million pages of content to be digitized  Retro-digitizing back files of journals in process – target date of December 2004 set as completion date  Books are being digitized for both e-book production and Print on Demand publication.  Archival arrangements are a priority and further developments will be announced shortly Projects

25. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans  New Library Advisory Board to be formed  Selected experts (librarians/consortia members) will be invited  The Board will work with a committee at Springer to advise on many details of the merged Company, current issues and policy changes  The Board and Springer will have an open forum policy for frank discussions and points of interest Library Advisory Board

26. ICOLC 2004: New Orleans Thank you Syed Hasan shasan@springer-ny.com (212) 460-1739 Susan Pastore susan.pastore@wkap.com (781) 681-0501 Contact Information