| Founded | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Werner Mark Linz |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Burns & Oates, T&T Clark |
| Official website | www.continuumbooks.com |
The Continuum International Publishing Group is a publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City. It had been owned by Nova Capital Management since 2005. On July 11, 2011 the media reported a complete takeover of Continuum Group by Bloomsbury Publishing.[1]
The current company was created in 1999 with the merger of the Cassell academic and religious lists and The Continuum Publishing Company, founded in New York in 1980.[2] Continuum is an academic publisher, producing more than 500 books a year, with an active backlist of over 6,000 titles.
The academic 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, there is a varied list that publishes in theology, history, politics, religious studies and general interest. The US company is 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. Continuum publishes Paulo Freire's seminal Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The full list of subjects that Continuum publishes in are:
Continuum acquired Athlone Press. Athone was originally founded in 1948 as the University of London publishing house, and sold to the Bemrose Corporation in 1979.[3]
In 2003, Continuum acquired the London-based Hambledon & London[4] (Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year 2001–02)[5], a publisher of trade history for the general reader.