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CreateSpace

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 acquired by Amazon in 2005.[5]

History

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

  • Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX)

External links

  • (Redirects to KDP)

References

  1. BOOKSURGE, LLC OpenCorporates, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  2. Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC Business Wire, April 4, 2005, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  3. ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC OpenCorporates, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  4. Liz Segrist. CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees Charleston Business Journal, February 22, 2019, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  5. Thad Moore. Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs The Post and Courier, November 28, 2016, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  6. Allison Flood. Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering The Guardian, April 27, 2018, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  7. Alisha Roemeling. Writing a Dog's Tale Eugene Register-Guard, April 12, 2018, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  8. Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018 retrieved June 7, 2020^
  9. Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand manufacturing.amazon.com, retrieved July 30, 2018^
  10. CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next August 2018, retrieved September 30, 2019^
  11. CreateSpace Member Agreement kdp.amazon.com, retrieved November 5, 2019^