CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, is 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]

On-Demand Publishing, LLC
Subsidiary
IndustryPublishing, Book publishing
PredecessorBookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc.
FoundedJuly 14, 2000 (2000-07-14) in South Carolina, US[1][2]
Headquarters
Scotts Valley, California
,
US
Area served
Worldwide
ParentAmazon.com
Websitewww.createspace.com

History

CreateSpace publishes books containing any content at all other than just placeholder text.[6] It neither edits nor verifies. Books are printed on demand, meaning each volume is 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 has published 1,416,384 books for over 15,000 authors. The published books were indexed at top 200 US universities and top 500 world universities. Many academics, researchers, politicians and authors from different paths have used their publishing services.[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

References
  1. "BOOKSURGE, LLC". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. "Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC". Business Wire. 2005-04-04. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  3. "ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  4. Segrist, Liz (2019-02-22). "CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees". Charleston Business Journal. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  5. Moore, Thad (28 November 2016). "Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs". The Post and Courier. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  6. Flood, Allison (27 April 2018). "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. Roemeling, Alisha (12 April 2018). "Writing a Dog's Tale". Eugene Register-Guard. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  8. "Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018".|title=CreateSpace Statistics and Number of Books Published|website=statistica.com|access-date=2020-06-07}}
  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. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
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