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Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798 as the namesake of its founder. (The original name of the founder was actually Neilson but, owing to many errors made by his customers, he changed it to "Nelson"). It is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. 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. ==British history== Thomas Nelson, Sr. founded the company that bears his name in Edinburgh in 1798, originally as a second-hand bookshop at 2 West Bow (just off the Grassmarket),〔http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83401299&mode=transcription〕 recognizing a ready market for cheap, standard editions of non-copyright works which he attempted to satisfy it by publishing reprints of classics. The company gained its ‘Sons’ when William and Thomas Jr. entered their father’s business in 1835 and 1839, respectively. Thomas Sr. died in 1861 and is buried in the extreme NW corner of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh. William concentrated his talents on the marketing side, while Thomas Jr. devoted his to editing and production. The firm went on to become a publisher of new books and, as the nineteenth century progressed, it produced an increasingly wide range of non-religious materials; by 1881, religion accounted for less than 6% of the firm's output. Their Hope Park Works in Edinburgh burned down in 1878 and the city council allowed temporary accommodation on the Meadows. In appreciation, the company funded the stone pillars at the east end of Melville Drive. 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 Thomas III and Ian, Thomas Jr.'s sons, were able to join him and John Buchan as partners. Buchan, employed by the firm until 1929, dedicated his novel The Thirty Nine Steps to Thomas III (Thomas Arthur Nelson) in 1914. Ian Nelson took over as head of the family firm after the death of Thomas Nelson III in 1917 in action during the First World War. By the early twentieth 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. 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 Thomson Organisation in an effort to sustain its academic and educational publishing interests on a global scale. The printing division of Nelsons was sold to the Edinburgh company Morrison and Gibb in 1968. 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." It was the first publisher for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Thomson owned the company from 1960 until 2000. That year, it was acquired by Wolters Kluwer, who merged Nelson with its existing publishing arm, Stanley Thornes, to form Nelson Thornes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Nelson (publisher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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