CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryPublishing, Book publishing
PredecessorBookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc.
FoundedJuly 14, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-07-14) in South Carolina, US[1][2]
DefunctJuly 2018; 6 years ago (2018-07)
FateMerged into Kindle Direct Publishing
Headquarters
Scotts Valley, California
,
US
Area served
Worldwide
ParentAmazon.com
Websitewww.createspace.com Edit this at Wikidata

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]

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]

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References

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  1. ^ "BOOKSURGE, LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC". Business Wire. April 4, 2005. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next". August 2018. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  11. ^ "CreateSpace Member Agreement". kdp.amazon.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
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