diff --git a/tablib/formats/_xlsx.py b/tablib/formats/_xlsx.py
index fc0a332..3689a10 100644
--- a/tablib/formats/_xlsx.py
+++ b/tablib/formats/_xlsx.py
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ def export_book(databook):
 
     wb = Workbook()
     wb.worksheets = []
-    ew = ExcelWriter(workbook = wb)
     for i, dset in enumerate(databook._datasets):
         ws = wb.create_sheet()
         ws.title = dset.title if dset.title else 'Sheet%s' % (i)
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ def export_book(databook):
 
 
     stream = BytesIO()
-    ew.save(stream)
+    wb.save(stream)
     return stream.getvalue()