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Thomas Nelson (publisher)

Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder. It is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content".[1]

Parent company

1798
1854 (US)

Thomas Nelson

  • Mark Schoenwald (President & CEO)
  • Tom Knight (Senior Vice President – Sales)

Bibles, books, curriculum, digital content

Increase$237.8 million (2005)

Approximately 450

Its most successful title to date is Heaven Is for Real.[2] In Canada, the Nelson imprint is used for educational publishing. In the United Kingdom, it was an independent publisher until 1962, and later became part of the educational imprint Nelson Thornes.

Canadian history[edit]

When Thomson sold Thomas Nelson UK, it kept the Canadian operations of the publisher as part of the company's education division. Thomson acquired Irwin in 2002.[15]


Thomson Education was spun off as Cengage Learning in the United States and Canada in 2007. The Nelson name lives on through the Canadian company Nelson Education Ltd., an educational publisher. In 2015, Nelson Education was handed over to debtholders, which included Ares Management, Citigroup, Mudrick Capital Management and Sound Point Capital Management.[16] In 2017, McGraw-Hill Education sold its K-12 education holds of McGraw-Hill Ryerson (formerly Ryerson Press) to Nelson.[17]

Zondervan

in The Tennessean, 2004-10-19

Cumberland snaps up conservative-leaning series from Nelson

in Nashville Business Journal, 2006-02-21

Private equity firm buying Thomas Nelson

Dempster, John A. H., "Thomas Nelson and Sons in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Study in Motivation, Part One", in Publishing History, 13, 1983, pp. 41–87; "Part Two" in Publishing History, 14, 1983, pp. 5–63.

Moore, Sam, American By Choice: The Remarkable Fulfilment of an Immigrant's Dreams, Nashville: Nelson, 1998.

A History of Book Publishing in the United States, New York and London: Bowker, four volumes, 1972–1981.

Tebbel, John

 — Thomas Nelson (USA)

www.thomasnelson.com

 — WestBow Press (self-publishing services)

www.westbowpress.com

 — Nelson Education (Canada)

www.nelson.com

Archived 25 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine — SAPPHIRE (The Scottish Archive of Print & Publishing History Records)

Thomas Nelson and Sons

 — history of Nelson and its numerous book series

Nelson's Collections

and Thomas Nelson and Sons at Open Library

Thomas Nelson