Industry Books, Publishing Founded 1993 Type of business Private | Products Books Number of employees 108 | |
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Website www.arcadiapublishing.com Headquarters Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States Profiles | ||
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Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of local history.
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History
It was founded in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993 by United Kingdom-based Tempus Publishing, but became independent in 2004. The corporate office is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Its formula for regional publishing is to use local writers or historians to write about their community using 180 to 240 black-and-white photographs with captions and introductory paragraphs in a 128 page book. The Images of America series is the company's largest product line.
Other series include Images of Rail, Images of Sports, Images of Baseball, Black America, Postcard History, Campus History, Corporate History, Legendary Locals, Images of Modern America, and Then & Now.
It has a catalog of more than 8,500 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year.
The History Press
The History Press is a subsidiary publishing house, owned by Arcadia. Its books mainly deal with "narratives of local heroes, tragic losses, collections of homegrown recipes, historic mysteries, and everything in between" Another popular series includes the "Haunted America" line of books, which are written by local authors about specific cities across the US.
Distribution
The books are printed in the United States. It handles its own sales and distribution with the following each accounting for one-third of the company's sales: