Thomas Nelson (publisher)
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in Scotland in 1798 as the namesake of its founder. Its former United States division is currently the sixth largest American trade publisher and the world's largest Christian publisher. It is owned by the private equity firm Kohlberg & Company. In 2011, News Corporation subsidiary HarperCollins announced they had acquired Thomas Nelson. The acquisition closed in July 2012.
Their most successful title to date is Heaven Is for Real, which became their first title to sell more than one million ebooks.
In Canada, the Nelson imprint is used for educational publishing by Cengage Learning. In the United Kingdom, it was a mainstream publisher until the late 20th Century and is now part of another educational imprint, Nelson Thornes.
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Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or nelson:
“After night’s thunder far away had rolled
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)