HPN Books is an operating-division of Ledge Media, a well-established specialty publishing house with locations in Southern California, San Antonio, Texas, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Historical Publishing Network, or HPN Books, was founded in 1973 as Lammert Publications Inc. originally publishing community and business newspapers, local magazines and directories for organizations such as Chambers of Commerce.

For over 40 years, HPN Books has carved out a leading position for turnkey design, production, and marketing of limited edition photography-rich coffee table books that focus on promoting the unique heritage and history of hundreds of communities, cities and regions across the United States, publishing thousands of distinct book titles for the Historical Publishing Network’s many sponsors and clients.

These glossy hard-cover coffee table books are typically sponsored by city mayors, county officials, trade associations, chambers of commerce, nonprofit organizations, libraries, educational and healthcare institutions, with the participation of local businesses and institutions which purchase profile pages in these books to prominently feature and/or advertise their organizations.

HPN Custom Media & Publishing or CMP, a sister-division of HPN Books, offers custom media & publishing solutions to nonprofit organizations, trade associations, foundations, companies, churches, colleges, universities and healthcare institutions to commemorate and celebrate key historical or transformational milestones, promote their heritage and legacy, or to enhance their brand and reputational standing in their markets and communities.

Today, a proudly woman-owned company led by Ledge Media’s founder and CEO, the new President of HPN Books, Daphne Fletcher, a veteran publisher and editor of thousands of books.