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CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon. The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and acquired by Amazon in 2005.

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On-Demand Publishing, LLC
Company type
Subsidiary
IndustryPublishing, Book publishing
PredecessorBookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc.
FoundedJuly 14, 2000 (2000-07-14) in South Carolina, US12
DefunctJuly 2018 (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.34 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.1011

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References

References

  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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