Which publisher owns Van Nostrand Reinhold?

Question

I would like to contact the publisher who owns the rights to a now out-of-print book published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company in 1982. My web research seems to show that this publisher may have been bought, gone bankrupt, or otherwise ceased business in the mid 1990's. I found one reference that John Wiley might own the rights, but I contacted them and they said no.

The particular book is ISBN 0-442-27381-9, "Michael Pearson's Traditional Knitting Aran, Fair Isle and fisher ganseys" by Michael Pearson.

Answer 1

This is mysterious. I did a google search for "Van Nostrand Reinhold" (without "Company"), and the first result is www.vnr.com. If you go to www.vnr.com, you can search all day long and find no mention of the words "Nostrand" or "Reinhold". However, if you do a google search for "www.vnr.com" and go down a few results, you can find several sites that say that www.vnr.com is in fact the web site for "Van Nostrand Reinhold". I think the domain vnr.com was bought by a different company.

Then I searched archive.org for www.vnr.com and found the result sited below. Van Nostrand Reinhold was acquired by John Wiley & Sons. Maybe they do not own the rights anymore, but you would hope they would know who does. You should probably try to contact them again, because maybe you just did not talk to the right person.
good luck!

Answer 2

Van Nostrand Reinhold

Answer 3

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Which publisher owns Van Nostrand Reinhold?
I would like to contact the publisher who owns the rights to a now out-of-print book published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company in 1982. My web research seems to show that this publisher may have been bought, gone bankrupt, or otherwise ceased business in the mid 1990's. I found one reference...

Answer 4

I worked for Van Nostrand Reinhold back in the 70s and early 80s. They were acquired by Thompson International.... Thomas Nelson. I do not know if they moved from there. This book would probably have been imported into the VNR list from another publisher and given this ISBN. Probably from an English publishing house.
This was a common way for VNR to expand their list of craft books.