Each day of the year a new book becomes available which has been brought to the market using our Express Publishing Service. Leveraging our position as a global player in the self-publishing industry Web Direct Studio can offer to print-ready manuscripts and books global exposure through over 25,000 online and offline book outlets.

Our Express Publishing Service was the brainchild of one of our directors whose son wanted to publish a book for the fans of his jazz group without having to go to all the expense of going down the traditional “print 5,000 copies” root which would have caused problems with storage, initial outlay and distribution.

As he said at the time, “I thought, well, why is it not possible to have the book available to order from every online and offline book outlet on both sides of the Atlantic? In the digital age it seemed somewhat primitive to print on dead trees and store them in a warehouse without knowing just what the uptake would be. I wanted the flexibility of being able to say to fans of our jazz band, ‘look, go on Amazon.com and order a copy or walk into any Barnes & Noble store and order a copy’.”

At the time, of course, that was not a possibility. In this world, who you know is as important as what you know. From this simple request was born the idea of our Express Publishing Service. The process is simple enough: create a print-ready book using Word, or any other word-processing program you are familiar with. Turn it into a PDF file using Acrobat Distiller or by simply going to a free PDF conversion service such as PDFonline or Print in PDF. Once you have your PDF document and you are satisfied with its format go to our Express Publishing Service and access the service which is best for you (if you do not have an ISBN, for example you will need to buy one, same for a cover).

Within 24 hours your book will have been checked, typeset and you will get a timeline for it being made globally available. At this stage you can also order any copies you want which will be professionally printed and delivered to any address you specify. This can be any number from 1 to 1,000, though there are scaleable discounts which you can have for specific numbers.

If your book is not in PDF or if you are not sure how to lay it out then you need to go to our Express Publishing Service, again pay for the services you need (i.e. publishing, cover design, ISBN etc). Within 48 hours you will receive acknowledgment of your purchase and detailed instructions of where to upload your Word file.

Once your file is in our system you will be guided on what size is best for it and how to decide. When you have decided on your book’s size you will get guidance on the best blurb for your back and pricing information if you intend to have it sold worldwide. Within 48 hours you will then be sent a PDF proof file to approve and that’s it! Within eight working days of approval your book will be on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk plus hundreds of other online bookstores. It will be available to order from any good bookshop in the USA, the UK or Australia and you will be able to place an order yourself and have it delivered to any address you want worldwide.

And all because of an idea born out of the need to get something done for someone by one who could. Not every service we offer is that simple to activate or works that smoothly. But then not every service we offer is as powerful as our Express Publishing Service. Perfect for poetry collections, short stories, biographies, hobby group histories, corporate histories, recipe books, novellas, fiction books of all kinds, writers' circle publications and non-fiction books on specific subjects. In fact what you decide to use the service to publish is up to you. Our Express Publishing Service is intended to give the same capability to get your book published professionally and place it in front of a global audience as if you owned your own global publishing house. It all happens confidentially, your book appears completely professionally published and in appearance and quality it is indistinguishable from any book available in printshops. As a matter of fact the printing and global book distribution service we leverage on your account is the same one which global publishing houses use to distribute their own content.

You gain kudos, credibility and probably the best professional calling card money can buy, all for less than the cost of getting a few business cards designed and printed. Not bad for an idea born out of necessity.