Savas Beatie


Savas Beatie LLC, commonly referred to as simply Savas Beatie or Savas Beatie Publishing, is a California-based book publishing company established in 2004. To date the company has published more than one hundred and twenty military, general history titles. The company uses the tag line "Independent, scholarly, and a bit old fashioned." Savas Beatie titles are distributed into the general book trade by Philadelphia-based Casemate Publishing. Markets outside the general trade, including individual enthusiasts, national and state historic sites, and specialty sales, are managed inside the company.

History

Savas Beatie was established in late 2003, launching on January 1, 2004, when New York City attorney Russel H. "Cap" Beatie and Theodore P. "Ted" Savas agreed to form the company. Savas, a licensed California attorney and author/editor, had been consulting with and working for a number of publishing companies. He was the co-founder of Savas Woodbury Publishers. The pair met in November 1988 in San Diego at a West Coast Civil War conference, discovered their mutual interest, and returned to the Bay Area to launch the printed quarterly journal Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War. This undertaking formed the foundation for what would soon become Savas Woodbury Publishers, a book publishing company that specialized in American Civil War titles. When Woodbury left in 1995 to pursue other interests, the company changed its name to Savas Publishing Company. The genres of publishing expanded at this time to include other historical topics, including World War II, the Indian Wars, and more general historical interests such as the bestselling 1912 Facts About Titanic. Savas Publishing was sold to Combined Publishing / Perseus Books Group in 2000.
Savas Beatie publishes books on various aspects of military, sports, and general history since 2004. In addition to print books, it maintains a digital publishing catalog, with nearly all of its titles available in all e-formats, and several of its titles are available as audio books. Savas Beatie is distributed into the North America book trade by Casemate Publishing Company of Havertown, Pennsylvania, with Casemate UK handling European sales. Direct non-book trade sales are handled in-house.

Recognition

Savas Beatie titles have received the following forms of recognition: