X-communication, X-presso Books’ parent company, has been helping individuals and organizations self-publish since 1994. Since 1988, X-comm’s owner and publisher, Tony Dierckins, has helped bring over three dozen books to the public, including such regional and national bestsellers as Will to Murder and the Duct Tape books and calendars. (Dierckins has also written over a dozen books, including Zenith: A Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth and Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated Hisotry of Dulut’'s Aerial Bridge.)

In the fall of 2005, X-comm created X-presso Books to offer affordable self publishing solutions to both individuals and organizations.

Our experienced staff has worked with such national and regional publishers as Workman Publishing, Simon & Schuster, Andrews-McMeel Publishers, St. Martin’s Griffin, Running Press, Motor Books International, Meadowbrook Press, Blacklock Nature Photography, Bad Dog Press, Adventure Publications, Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, Zenith Press, Motor Book, and Voyageur Press, samong others.