Arcadia works differently than other publishers. They encourage local authors to put together pictorial histories by assuming all publishing costs and paying the author a royalty. Since many of these books may never rank as best sellers and would probably have had to be privately published at the author's own expense, this is a great way for small groups and individuals to produce a work of local interest. Some of their publications use reproduced postcard images. Others use photographs or a combination of both.
Text accompanies the illustrations.
One of the best things about these books is that they are preserving and making widely available images that may only exist in a limited number or in a small geographic area. As genealogists we know the value of learning the history of the area where our ancestors lived and are eager to see pictures of how the area looked. These books can help us with that. A Bay County volume will be published by September. Tallahassee, and African-American Life on the Southern Hunting Plantation .