Companies / Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
US publisher of local and regional history books; in 2025 it offered its authors a payment per title to include their books in an AI training licence, opt-out by default. Recorded here: 3 public prices.
United Statesarcadiapublishing.comLatest record 3 Nov 2025
Public prices involving Arcadia Publishing
- AI training royalty per title paid to History Press (Arcadia Publishing) authors who stayed in Arcadia's 2025 sublicence to an unnamed technology company; one author took it for three titles
Author-side money in a sublicence that went ahead (inclusion was the default and this author accepted for all three titles). Two other authors were offered the same $340; Arcadia's own fee and the buyer are undisclosed. Arcadia has a catalogue of nearly 17,000 titles.
Press report, Slate, Arcadia Publishing: Your town's local history books might be used to train A.I.
$1,020, or $340 per bookper title (author's royalty, one-time use)
- One-time AI training royalty Arcadia Publishing offered a Belt Publishing author (Rethinking Fandom, 2022) in its second round of sublicensing to an unnamed major technology company, opt-out by default
Arcadia's email reprinted in full by the author, who has one book with Belt and opted out. Opt-out deadline 7 November 2025, payment expected in spring 2026. Belt's director said the second-round titles were finalized in late October 2025.
The payer's own page, Cup of Coffee newsletter (Craig Calcaterra), 3 November 2025, reprint of Arcadia Publishing's 'Royalty Opportunity' email
$355per title (author's royalty, one-time use)
- One-time AI training royalty Arcadia Publishing offered the author of a local-history title (Images of Baseball: Kane County Cougars) for a sublicence to an unnamed major technology company, first round, opt-out by default
Arcadia's own email, posted as a screenshot by the author; the buyer and Arcadia's own fee were not disclosed. Inclusion was the default ('No action is needed to be included'), opt-out by 18 July 2025. Slate (3 November 2025) reports the same round paid other History Press authors $340 a title.
The payer's own page, Bluesky, David Malamut's post of Arcadia Publishing's email to authors (screenshot)
$205per title (author's royalty, one-time use)
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AIData.Broker, “Arcadia Publishing in the AI training data market”, reviewed 3 Nov 2025. https://aidata.markets/companies/arcadia-publishing
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