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For authors and experts
Publish a useful book.
Shape a manuscript, design a professional edition, and build a practical route to a clearly understood audience.
Publishing useful knowledge
Publish specialized books. Prepare structured data.
DirectionPress helps authors publish practical books for focused markets and helps rights holders prepare authorized book collections for AI projects.
Published and directed by Michele Merin.
Focused markets
Clear structure
Careful production
Responsible use
Two ways to work together
Start with the form your knowledge needs.
Some knowledge needs to become a book. Some already exists in books and needs to become reliable, structured data. DirectionPress brings editorial judgment to both.
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For rights holders and AI teams
Prepare books for AI.
Convert authorized book collections into accurate text, useful structure, dependable metadata, and agreed delivery formats.
Why DirectionPress
Structure is part of the product.
Specialist readers share a language, a need, and a context. DirectionPress starts there, then organizes the material around the way people will actually use it.
The same discipline matters in AI data work. A scan is only the beginning. Useful data needs clean text, meaningful hierarchy, stable metadata, quality review, and a documented relationship to the original pages.
See every servicePublishing experience
Built on information people use.
The DirectionPress team has experience identifying specialized markets and creating adoption around useful information. Capitol Info and NeedleTravel show that approach in government information and fiber arts.
Government information
Capitol Info
Reference books that organize changing government information for clearly defined readers.
Fiber and fabric communities
NeedleTravel
Sold nationwide since 2008, NeedleTravel connects makers with independent shops and gives industry experts a useful shop list.
A practical method
Define. Structure. Build. Verify. Deliver.
Every DirectionPress engagement begins with the audience, the source material, and the intended use. The scope changes. The discipline does not.
- 01Define
Clarify the reader, user, rights, source, and desired result.
- 02Structure
Map the manuscript or collection into a reliable information system.
- 03Build
Edit, design, capture, convert, and prepare the working edition or dataset.
- 04Verify
Review the complete output against agreed acceptance criteria.
- 05Deliver
Package the files, metadata, guidance, and next steps.
Start with a useful conversation
Tell us about your book or digitization project.
Bring a book idea, a manuscript, an existing edition, or an authorized collection. DirectionPress will help identify the clearest next step.