On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.[3][4] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.[5]
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing, Book publishing |
| Predecessor | BookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc. |
| Founded | July 14, 2000 in South Carolina, US[1][2] |
| Defunct | July 2018 |
| Fate | Merged into Kindle Direct Publishing |
| Headquarters | , US |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Parent | Amazon.com |
| Website | www |
CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text.[6] It neither edited nor verified. Books were printed on demand, meaning each volume was produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.[7]
CreateSpace continued its publishing services for 8 years until its transfer to Amazon's Media on Demand. By 2018, it had published 1,416,384 books for over 15,000 authors.[8]
In July 2018, CreateSpace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months.[9] CreateSpace merged with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.[10][11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "BOOKSURGE, LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ "Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC". Business Wire. April 4, 2005. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ "ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ Segrist, Liz (February 22, 2019). "CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees". Charleston Business Journal. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ Moore, Thad (November 28, 2016). "Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs". The Post and Courier. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ Flood, Allison (April 27, 2018). "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 21, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ Roemeling, Alisha (April 12, 2018). "Writing a Dog's Tale". Eugene Register-Guard. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ "Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018". Archived from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- ^ "Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand". manufacturing.amazon.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next". August 2018. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ "CreateSpace Member Agreement". kdp.amazon.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
External links
edit- Official website
(Redirects to KDP)
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