Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of local history.

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 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, and Then & Now.

It has a catalog of more than 5,000 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year.

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

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