Director/PDMR Shareholding

Reed Elsevier PLC
05 December 2007


           ISSUED ON BEHALF OF REED ELSEVIER PLC AND REED ELSEVIER NV


5 December 2007

                           Director/PDMR Shareholding


Reed Elsevier has received notification that Mr Patrick Tierney, a director of
Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV, undertook the following transactions in
the ADRs of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV today:



(i)    Sold 6,537 Reed Elsevier PLC ADRs at an average price of $49.94 per ADR.

(ii)   Sold 8,855 Reed Elsevier NV ADRs at an average price of $36.77  per ADR.



As a consequence of these transactions, Mr Tierney's  interests in the ordinary
share capital of Reed Elsevier is now:

     62,416 Reed Elsevier PLC ordinary shares; and

     41,448 Reed Elsevier NV ordinary shares.








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