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.
Also recorded as On-Demand Publishing, LLC · BookSurge · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · CreateSpace.com
CreateSpace
- Name
- On-Demand Publishing, LLC
- Founded
- 2000.
- Headquarters
- Scotts Valley.
- Activity
- self-publishing.
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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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Key facts
• Name — On-Demand Publishing, LLC • Type — Subsidiary • Industry — Publishing, Book publishing • Fate — Merged into Kindle Direct Publishing • Predecessor — BookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc. • Founded — in South Carolina, US • Hq Location City — Scotts Valley, California • Hq Location Country — US • Area Served — Worldwide • Parent — Amazon.com
History
History
CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text. It neither edited nor verified. Books were printed on demand, meaning each volume was produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon. 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. In July 2018, CreateSpace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months. CreateSpace merged with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.
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2000
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- 1.OpenCorporates. BOOKSURGE, LLC.
- 2.Business Wire. Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC. April 4, 2005.
- 3.OpenCorporates. ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC.
- 4.Segrist, Liz. CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees. Charleston Business Journal. February 22, 2019.
- 5.Moore, Thad. Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs. The Post and Courier. November 28, 2016.
- 6.Flood, Allison. Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering. The Guardian. April 27, 2018.
- 7.Roemeling, Alisha. Writing a Dog's Tale. Eugene Register-Guard. April 12, 2018.
- 8.Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018.
- 9.Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand. manufacturing.amazon.com.
- 10.CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next. August 2018.
- 11.CreateSpace Member Agreement. kdp.amazon.com.
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