Parent company | Lezen |
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Founded | 1993 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Charleston, South Carolina |
Distribution | self-distributed |
Key people | David Steinberger, CEO[1] |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | The History Press, Legendary Locals |
No. of employees | 108 |
Official website | www |
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher. They publish neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.[2][3][4] Arcadia Publishing also owns the History Press, which publishes text-driven books on American history and folklore.
It was created in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993 by United Kingdom-based Tempus Publishing. It became independent after being bought by its CEO in 2004. The company office is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.[5]
It has a catalog of more than 12,000 titles, and it—along with its subsidiary, The History Press—publishes 900 new titles every year.[6]
In May 2017, Arcadia bought Palmetto Publishing Group, a Charleston-based self-publishing service that had been in business since 2015.[1]
In 2018, Arcadia was bought by Lezen, a new company owned by Lili and Michael Lynton.[7]
The History Press is a subsidiary publishing house that is owned by Arcadia. Its books are mostly about "narratives of local heroes, tragic losses, collections of homegrown recipes, historic mysteries, and everything in between."[8]
The History Press was originally a US subsidiary of the UK-based publisher of the same name. In 2014, the US-based part of The History Press was sold to Arcadia Publishing.[9]
Legendary Locals is an imprint of The History Press.[10]