CreateSpace
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Publishing, Book publishing |
Predecessor | BookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc. |
Founded | July 14, 2000South Carolina, US[1][2] | in
Headquarters | , US |
Area served | Worldwide |
Parent | Amazon.com |
Website | www |
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]
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.[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
- ^ "BOOKSURGE, LLC". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC". Business Wire. 2005-04-04. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ Segrist, Liz (2019-02-22). "CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees". Charleston Business Journal. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Flood, Allison (27 April 2018). "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ Roemeling, Alisha (12 April 2018). "Writing a Dog's Tale". Eugene Register-Guard. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ "Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018".
- ^ "Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand". manufacturing.amazon.com.
- ^ "CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next". August 2018.
- ^ "CreateSpace Member Agreement". kdp.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
External links
- CreateSpace books
- 2000 establishments in South Carolina
- Amazon (company) acquisitions
- Publishing companies based in California
- Self-publishing companies
- American companies established in 2000
- Companies based in Santa Cruz County, California
- 2005 mergers and acquisitions
- United States publishing company stubs