On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, is a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.[1][2] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.[3]
History
CreateSpace publishes books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text.[4] It neither edits nor verifies. Books are printed on demand, meaning each volume is produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.[5]
CreateSpace continued its publishing services for 8 years until its transfer to Amazon's Media on Demand. By 2018, it has published 1,416,384 books for over 15,000 authors.[6]
In July 2018, CreateSpace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months.[7] CreateSpace merged with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.[8][9]
See also
References
- ↑ ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC. OpenCorporates. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees(2019-02-22). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs(28 November 2016). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering(27 April 2018). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ Writing a Dog's Tale(12 April 2018). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
- ↑ Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand. manufacturing.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ↑ CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next(August 2018). Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ↑ CreateSpace Member Agreement. kdp.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-11-05.