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This article has been tagged since January 2007. The Continuum International Publishing Group is a fast-growing publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ...
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The current company was created in 1999 with the merger of the Cassell academic and religious lists and The Continuum Publishing Company in New York. Continuum is trade publisher, producing more than 500 books a year, written by authors who are acknowledged experts in their chosen fields. The house has an active backlist of over 6,000 titles.
Continuum publishes for the market in those fields in which it feels it can make the most valid contribution to learning, scholarship and research. 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 it's 33 1/3 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. 33 1/3 (Thirty-Three and a Third) is a series of books written about rock music albums. ...
Continuum's growth has been rapid and has come both organically and through acquisition. Many of the companies that the company has acquired are market leaders in their field. A recent acquisition is the London-based Hambledon & London, now Hambledon Continuum. Hambledon Continuum is a publisher of trade history for the general reader and publishes some of the English-speaking world's best-known historians. In May 2007 it will publish Becoming Jane, the inspiration for the Miramax film of the same name. Becoming Jane is a Columbia Pictures film currently in pre-production and scheduled to be released in 2006. ...
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