Director/PDMR Shareholding

Reed Elsevier PLC
16 April 2008



           ISSUED ON BEHALF OF REED ELSEVIER PLC AND REED ELSEVIER NV




16 April 2008



                           Director/PDMR Shareholding



Reed Elsevier received notification from the Trustees of the Reed Elsevier
Employee Benefit Trust today that, following the vesting of the share awards
noted below on 14 April 2008, granted in April 2005 under the Reed Elsevier
Group plc Bonus Investment Plan, and after taking account of shares withheld to
meet personal tax and social security obligations, the number of securities
noted below were released to the directors.



Following these transactions, the current interest of each director in the
ordinary share capital of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV is as noted
below.


Director    No. of Reed       No. of Reed       No. of Reed       No. of Reed        Current         Current
            Elsevier PLC      Elsevier NV       Elsevier PLC      Elsevier NV
            ordinary shares/  ordinary shares/  ordinary shares/  ordinary shares/   interest in     interest in
            ADRs*             ADRs*             ADRs*             ADRs*              Reed Elsevier   Reed
                                                                                     PLC ordinary    Elsevier NV
            vested            vested            released          released           shares          ordinary
                                                                                                     shares

Sir Crispin 86,042            -                 50,764            -                  800,640         386,940
Davis
Mark Armour 21,861            15,098            12,897            8,907              128,648         62,385
Gerard van  -                 26,347            -                 15,808             109,018         143,469
de Aast
Andrew      5,939*            8,261*            3,563*            4,956*             231,089         168,232
Prozes
Erik        3,505*            -                 2,067*            -                  77,860          211,760
Engstrom

* denotes vesting/release of ADRs




PDMR                      No. of Reed Elsevier  No. of Reed Elsevier
                          PLC ordinary shares   PLC ordinary shares
                          vested                released


Nick Baker                19,086                11,260





The market price of each security at the date of release was 647p (Reed Elsevier
PLC ordinary share), €12.02 (Reed Elsevier NV ordinary share), $51.20 (Reed
Elsevier PLC ADR), and $38.15 (Reed Elsevier NV ADR).



The ordinary shares and ADRs required to fulfil the above releases have been
satisfied from the Reed Elsevier Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust').  The
Trust is a discretionary employee benefit trust which may acquire securities in
Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV by means of market purchases on the
appropriate Stock Exchange.  The Trust is operated in conjunction with Reed
Elsevier's share incentive schemes, and provides for the transfer of securities
to employees on the exercise of awards granted under the said schemes.




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