Continuum International Publishing Group

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The Continuum International Publishing Group is a publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City.

The current company was created in 1999 with the merger of the Cassell academic and religious lists, Athlone Press and The Continuum Publishing Company in New York. Continuum is an academic publisher, producing more than 500 books a year, with an active backlist of over 6,000 titles.

The publishing programme is focused on the humanities, in the fields of philosophy, film and music, literature, education, linguistics, theology and biblical studies. On the trade side, the US company is best known for its 33⅓ series, a collection of pocket-sized books each featuring a personal essay by a scholar, fan expert, or musician, and concentrating on a pivotal pop music album.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003 Continuum acquired the London-based Hambledon & London^[1] (Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year 2001-02)^[2], a publisher of trade history for the general reader.

Imprints

• Burns & Oates
• Hambledon Continuum - history publishing imprint
• T&T Clark
• Thoemmes Press

References

External links

• Continuum Books, official website
• Hambledon and London's website

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