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Indie Groundbreaking Publisher

Arcade Publishing

An International Focus with an Eye for Quality

by Ariel Bronson

The award-winning authors under Arcade Publishing’s roof boast accolades from gold IPPYs to Nobel Prizes.

Arcade, now an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, was founded by Richard and Jeanette Seaver in the late ’80s and “endured to become one of the most prominent independent publishers left in the United States,” according to The New York Times.

“Richard and Jeannette Seaver founded the company in 1988 as an imprint of Little, Brown and Company,” Executive Editor Cal Barksdale explained.

“Prior to that, Dick Seaver had been the publisher of Henry Holt and Company, and Jeannette had been the publisher of the small, independent Seaver Books, which began as Dick Seaver’s imprint at Penguin. Little, Brown was owned by Time Inc.

then, and when Time and Warner merged, the Seavers took Arcade independent.”

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