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McFarland and Company

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Parent company
  
Independent

Founder
  
Robert Franklin

Distribution
  
Worldwide

Status
  
Active

Country of origin
  
United States

Founded
  
1979

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Key people
  
Robert Franklin, Rhonda Herman

Headquarters location
  
Jefferson, North Carolina, United States

McFarland & Company, Inc. is a book publisher of primarily academic and adult nonfiction based in Jefferson, North Carolina. Its president and editor-in-chief is Robert Franklin, who founded the company in 1979. McFarland employs a staff of about 50, and as of 2011 had published approximately 5,000 titles.

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Subject matter

McFarland & Company's target markets are libraries and direct mailing to enthusiasts in niche categories. The company is known for its sports literature, especially baseball history, as well as books about chess and film. According to the Mountain Times, McFarland publishes about 275 scholarly monograph and reference book titles a year.

List of scholarly journals

  • Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game
  • Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues
  • Clues: A Journal of Detection
  • Journal of Information Ethics
  • North Korean Review
  • References

    McFarland & Company Wikipedia