The Little Blue Book Series
As you read this chapter, keep in mind that this is not a traditional book. Thomas Nelson employees are the primary audience. The chapters are short on purpose. They are intended to be a sort of “quick reference” for the things that are important to us.
Many companies would simply put this kind of content in their employee manual. However, as a book publishing company, we have chosen to put ours in an actual book.
Once you’ve read this chapter, I’d like your feedback—even if you don’t work for Thomas Nelson. You can do that by leaving specific comments. (If you are reading this post via e-mail, you will need to go to my actual blog, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and leave your comments in the Comment section.) I’d like to hear “the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Based on this feedback, I plan to revise the chapter.
If you want to read other chapters, you can go to the project overview and the table of contents. This also provides the revision history.
Our company has a long and fascinating history. The story begins in Scotland with the birth of Thomas Neilson (sic) in 1780. Though his parents were farmers, he developed an interest in printing, the most high-tech industry of the 18th century. As a result, his parents sent him to London to become an apprentice in a print shop on Paternoster Row, which was kind of the Silicon Valley of the Day.
In 1798, at the tender age of 18, Neilson started a second-hand bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland. The store was located at 7 West Bow Street. The store did quite well, but in the early 1800s, he decided to branch out. He began to realize there was a market for inexpensive editions of public domain books. So, in 1818, he began reprinting the classics. He also legally changed the spelling of his name to “Nelson.”
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