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 Harper Collins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content" The American branch of Thomas Nelson was established in 1854 in New York, and by the 1870s it was one of the city's more important firms. Now Based in Nashville, Tennessee