Inner Traditions – Bear & Company
American book publishing company
Inner Traditions – Bear & Company, also known as Inner Traditions, is a book publisher founded by Ehud Sperling in 1975 and based in Rochester, Vermont in the United States. Their books are distributed by Simon & Schuster.
History
Inner Traditions was founded by Ehud Sperling in June 1975 in New York City. The company's name came from the book The Inner Traditions of Magic, read by Sperling. They relocated to Rochester, Vermont in August 1986. Sperling still owns the company as of 2025.
In 2000, the independent publisher Bear & Company joined with Inner Traditions, moving from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where it had been founded in the early 1980s by Gerry Clow and astrologer Barbara Hand Clow. Afterwards, Inner Traditions became known as Inner Traditions/Bear & Company.
Inner Traditions began working with ebook sales in 2010. In 2017, Inner Traditions bought the Scotland-based Findhorn Press (founded 1971), formerly owned by the Findhorn Foundation.
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