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Nelson</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)_logo_2024.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Thomas_Nelson_%28publisher%29_logo_2024.png/220px-Thomas_Nelson_%28publisher%29_logo_2024.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Thomas_Nelson_%28publisher%29_logo_2024.png/330px-Thomas_Nelson_%28publisher%29_logo_2024.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Thomas_Nelson_%28publisher%29_logo_2024.png 2x" data-file-width="336" data-file-height="90" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent company</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1798<br />1854 (US)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">Thomas Nelson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Mark Schoenwald (President & CEO)</li><li>Doug Lockhart (Senior Vice President – Sales & Marketing)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication types</th><td class="infobox-data">Bibles, books, curriculum, digital content</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>$237.8 <a href="/wiki/1,000,000_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="1,000,000 (number)">million</a> (2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a> (<a href="/wiki/News_Corp" title="News Corp">News Corp</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of employees</th><td class="infobox-data">Approximately 450</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thomasnelson.com">www<wbr />.thomasnelson<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Nelson</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publishing</a> firm that began in West Bow, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder. It is a <a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a> of <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>, the publishing unit of <a href="/wiki/News_Corp" title="News Corp">News Corp</a>. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its most successful title to date is <i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_Is_for_Real" title="Heaven Is for Real">Heaven Is for Real</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Thornes" title="Nelson Thornes">Nelson Thornes</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="British_history">British history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: British history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well,_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG/280px-Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG" decoding="async" width="280" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG/420px-Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG/560px-Memorial_to_Thomas_Nelson_at_St_Bernard%27s_Well%2C_Edinburgh_by_John_Rhind.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3088" data-file-height="2056" /></a><figcaption>Memorial to Thomas Nelson at St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh by <a href="/wiki/John_Rhind_(sculptor)" title="John Rhind (sculptor)">John Rhind</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson,_Grange_Cemetery,_Edinburgh.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG/280px-Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG" decoding="async" width="280" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG/420px-Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG/560px-Grave_of_Thomas_Nelson%2C_Grange_Cemetery%2C_Edinburgh.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3088" data-file-height="2056" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Thomas Nelson, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh</figcaption></figure> <p>Thomas Nelson Sr. founded the shop that bears his name in Edinburgh in 1798, originally as a second-hand bookshop at 2 West Bow, just off the city's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mile#Lawnmarket" title="Royal Mile">Lawnmarket</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> recognizing a ready market for inexpensive, standard editions of non-copyright works, which he attempted to satisfy by publishing reprints of classics. By 1822, the shop had moved to 9 West Bow, and a second shop had opened at 230 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mile#High_Street" title="Royal Mile">High Street</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1835, the shop became a company, first as <b>Thomas Nelson & Son</b> when William joined, and in 1839 became <b>Thomas Nelson & Sons</b> when <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_(1822%E2%80%931892)" title="Thomas Nelson (1822–1892)">Thomas Jr.</a> entered the business. Thomas Sr. died in 1861 and is buried in the extreme north-west corner of <a href="/wiki/Grange,_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Grange, Edinburgh">Grange Cemetery</a> in Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William concentrated his talents on the marketing side, and Thomas Jr. devoted his to editing and production. In the mid-19th century, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott_Dalgleish" title="Walter Scott Dalgleish">Walter Scott Dalgleish</a> was an editor with the company.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The firm became a publisher of new books and, as the 19th century progressed, it produced an increasingly wide range of non-religious materials; by 1881, religion accounted for less than 6 per cent of the firm's output. Its Hope Park Works, located just east of the <a href="/wiki/The_Meadows_(park)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Meadows (park)">Meadows</a> in Edinburgh, burned down in 1878, and the city council allowed temporary accommodation on the Meadows. In appreciation, the company funded the <a href="/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Edinburgh#Southside" title="List of public art in Edinburgh">stone pillars</a> at the east end of Melville Drive, close to Hope Park. </p><p>William Nelson died in 1887, and Thomas Jr. died in 1892. They were succeeded by George Brown, Thomas's nephew, who directed the company until <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Arthur_Nelson" title="Thomas Arthur Nelson">Thomas III</a> and Ian, Thomas Jr.'s sons, joined him and <a href="/wiki/John_Buchan,_1st_Baron_Tweedsmuir" class="mw-redirect" title="John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir">John Buchan</a> as partners. Buchan, employed by the firm until 1929, dedicated his novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps" title="The Thirty-Nine Steps">The Thirty-Nine Steps</a></i> to Thomas III (Thomas Arthur Nelson) in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-jbahw2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jbahw2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ian Nelson took over as head of the family firm after Thomas Nelson III's death in action in 1917, during World War I. </p><p>By the early 20th century, Thomas Nelson had become a secular concern in the United Kingdom. The First World War led to the temporary rundown of Nelson through the denial of foreign markets, the loss of manpower (including the death of Thomas III), and the general exigencies of wartime, and initiated its long-term decline. Much of the effort expended during the inter-war period represented merely an attempt to reverse that decline, particularly in expanding the education list and reducing the dependence on reprints. </p><p>Ian Nelson remained head of the firm until his death in 1958. Ian Nelson's successor, his son Ronnie Nelson, seemed less interested in the successful management of the family firm than previous generations. In 1962, Thomas Nelson and Sons was absorbed into the <a href="/wiki/International_Thomson_Organization" title="International Thomson Organization">Thomson Organisation</a> in an effort to sustain its academic and educational publishing interests on a global scale. The presidency of the company then passed to Hubert Peter Morrison <a href="/wiki/FRSE" class="mw-redirect" title="FRSE">FRSE</a> (who had been chairman since 1958).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The printing division of Nelsons was sold to the Edinburgh company Morrison and Gibb in 1968. </p><p>Until 1968, according to the curators of a Senate House Library exhibition, the company "specialised in producing popular literature, children's books, bibles, religious works and educational texts."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the first publisher for Sir <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Thomson_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Thomson Corporation">Thomson</a> owned the company from 1960 until 2000. That year, it was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer" title="Wolters Kluwer">Wolters Kluwer</a>, who merged Nelson with its existing publishing arm, Stanley Thornes, to form <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Thornes" title="Nelson Thornes">Nelson Thornes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_American_history">Original American history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Original American history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The American branch of Thomas Nelson was established in 1854 in New York.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In a December 1873 article on "Holiday Gifts" the <i><a href="/wiki/New-York_Tribune" title="New-York Tribune">New-York Tribune</a></i> wrote: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Thomas Nelson & Sons, No. 42 <a href="/wiki/Bleecker_Street" title="Bleecker Street">Bleecker-st.</a>, devote themselves specially to the publications of the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, from which issues a superb variety of Bibles, <a href="/wiki/Prayer-book" class="mw-redirect" title="Prayer-book">Prayer-books</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hymnal" title="Hymnal">Hymnals</a>. They are printed in every imaginary style, and bound in plain cloth, in calf, in morocco, in Russia[?], in velvet, and in ivory. Besides these books, Messrs. Nelson have an attractive miscellaneous stock, in which a great many children's books appear, and some fine illustrated volumes."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Nelson held the copyright for the <a href="/wiki/American_Standard_Version" title="American Standard Version">American Standard Version</a> of the Bible from 1901 until 1928 when it transferred the copyright to the <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Council_of_Religious_Education&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Council of Religious Education (page does not exist)">International Council of Religious Education</a>. In the 1930s, the company made a deal with this council (which later became part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Churches" title="National Council of Churches">National Council of Churches</a>) to publish the <a href="/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version" title="Revised Standard Version">Revised Standard Version</a>. The firm was sold to The Thomson Organization in 1960, and in 1962, the company failed to meet demand for this Bible translation. This, in turn, led the National Council of Churches to grant other publishers licenses for the work, leading to a dramatic fall in revenue for Nelson.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_United_States_company">Current United States company</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Current United States company"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)" title="Special:EditPage/Thomas Nelson (publisher)">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 1969, <a href="/wiki/Sam_Moore_(publisher)" title="Sam Moore (publisher)">Sam Moore</a>'s publishing company, Royal Publishers, purchased Nelson. Moore retained the company's name and logo. In the 1960s, Thomas Nelson moved its headquarters from New York to <a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a>. It moved again to <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, in the 1970s. From 1979 to 1982, Nelson developed the <a href="/wiki/New_King_James_Version" title="New King James Version">New King James Version</a> of the Bible (also known as the Revised Authorized Version) and under Moore began diversifying the company with a gift division. </p><p>In 1992, Nelson purchased the <a href="/wiki/Word_Records" title="Word Records">Word</a> music and books brand from <a href="/wiki/Capital_Cities/ABC" title="Capital Cities/ABC">Capital Cities/ABC</a>. In 1997, the company split the two, spinning off the record label and printed music division, one of the largest church music companies, to <a href="/wiki/Gaylord_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaylord Entertainment">Gaylord Entertainment</a>. This led to a lawsuit by Gaylord in 2001 over the <i>Word</i> name, and it was settled when Nelson renamed its book division the W Publishing Group. That year also led to a corporate expansion by the purchase of the Cool Springs and Rutledge Hill Press labels. </p><p>In 2003, World Bible Publishers was acquired by Nelson, and the fiction label WestBow Press made its debut (all books were later consolidated under the Nelson brand and WestBow Press was resurrected in 2009 to offer self-publishing services). Also, an imprint for Internet news source <a href="/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a> made its debut that year. The agreement dissolved, however, after 2004, and the former WND brand is now under the Nelson Current brand, including its authors. </p><p>Thomas Nelson, now based in Nashville, publishes Christian authors, including <a href="/wiki/Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham">Billy Graham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Lucado" title="Max Lucado">Max Lucado</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Eldredge" title="John Eldredge">John Eldredge</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_C._Maxwell" title="John C. Maxwell">John Maxwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stanley" title="Charles Stanley">Charles Stanley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_A._O%27Donnell" title="Michael A. O'Donnell">Michael A. O'Donnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ted_Dekker" title="Ted Dekker">Ted Dekker</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Townsend_(author)" title="John Townsend (author)">John Townsend</a>, and Dave Stone. Thomas Nelson Inc. in 2000 began marketing the <a href="/wiki/Women_of_Faith" title="Women of Faith">Women of Faith</a> conference, a concept devised by author <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Arterburn" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Arterburn">Stephen Arterburn</a> in 1995, after attending a church conference in Atlanta. As of 2013, the annual Women of Faith conference was attended by more than 400,000 women. In 2005, Thomas Nelson launched the Revolve teen conferences, built on the Women of Faith model. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Michael_S._Hyatt" title="Michael S. Hyatt">Michael S. Hyatt</a>, a 25-year veteran of the publishing industry, became president and CEO of the company on 18 August 2005, succeeding Sam Moore who served as the company's CEO for nearly 47 years. </p><p>In 2006, the private equity firm <a href="/wiki/InterMedia_Partners" title="InterMedia Partners">InterMedia Partners</a> and other investors agreed to buy Thomas Nelson for $473 million. The transaction closed on 12 June 2006. The company operated as a private company. In the same year, Nelson acquired Integrity Publishers from <a href="/wiki/Integrity_Music" title="Integrity Music">Integrity Media</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, a group led by <a href="/wiki/Kohlberg_%26_Company" title="Kohlberg & Company">Kohlberg & Company</a> bought a majority share of the company. In 2011, <a href="/wiki/News_Corporation" title="News Corporation">News Corporation</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> subsidiary <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> announced it had acquired Thomas Nelson. The acquisition closed in July 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Canadian_history">Canadian history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Canadian history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Thomson sold Thomas Nelson UK, it kept the Canadian operations of the publisher as part of the company's education division. Thomson acquired <a href="/wiki/Clarke,_Irwin_%26_Company" title="Clarke, Irwin & Company">Irwin</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Donnelly_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Donnelly-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thomson Education was spun off as <a href="/wiki/Cengage_Learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Cengage Learning">Cengage Learning</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Ares_Management" title="Ares Management">Ares Management</a>, Citigroup, <a href="/wiki/Mudrick_Capital_Management" title="Mudrick Capital Management">Mudrick Capital Management</a> and Sound Point Capital Management.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, <a href="/wiki/McGraw-Hill_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="McGraw-Hill Education">McGraw-Hill Education</a> sold its K-12 education holds of McGraw-Hill Ryerson (formerly <a href="/wiki/Ryerson_Press" title="Ryerson Press">Ryerson Press</a>) to Nelson.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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H., "Thomas Nelson and Sons in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Study in Motivation, Part One", in <i>Publishing History</i>, 13, 1983, pp. 41–87; "Part Two" in <i>Publishing History</i>, 14, 1983, pp. 5–63.</li> <li>Moore, Sam, <i>American By Choice: The Remarkable Fulfilment of an Immigrant's Dreams</i>, Nashville: Nelson, 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_William_Tebbel" title="John William Tebbel">Tebbel, John</a>, <i>A History of Book Publishing in the United States</i>, New York and London: Bowker, four volumes, 1972–1981.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thomasnelson.com/">www.thomasnelson.com</a> — Thomas Nelson (USA)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.westbowpress.com/">www.westbowpress.com</a> — WestBow Press (self-publishing services)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nelson.com/">www.nelson.com</a> — Nelson Education (Canada)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sapphire.ac.uk/thomas-nelson-and-sons">Thomas Nelson and Sons</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170625110230/http://www.sapphire.ac.uk/thomas-nelson-and-sons">Archived</a> 25 June 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> — SAPPHIRE (The Scottish Archive of Print & Publishing History Records)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.collectionnelson.fr/">Nelson's Collections</a> — history of Nelson and its numerous book series</li> <li><a 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