Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of local 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 with other offices in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Chicago; and San Francisco, California.
Its formula for regional publishing is to use local writers or historians to write about their community using 180 to 220 black-and-white photographs with captions and introductory paragraphs in a 128 page book. [Hall, Alan. "The Book Is at the Printer!" March 20 2005 and "Steubenville A Book Written by Librarians" July 3 2005. Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio. Accessed August 24 2007. Hall is a co-author and describes the process of writing and editing an Acadia book Steubenville ISBN 978-0738533995.] 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, and Then & Now.
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:
 Bookstore chains
Independent bookstores, libraries, museums
Nontraditional outlets - historical societies, hardware stores [Milliot, Jim. "Arcadia Publishing Adopts National View" Publishers Weekly, August 9 2004. Accessed August 24 2007.]
References
External links
company website
Singh, Gary. "Graveyard Shift". Metro Silicon Valley Silicon Alleys column. November 23 2005. Access from Metroactive.com August 24 2007
Arcadia Publishing book review at Letters on Pages
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