CreateSpace
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing, Book publishing |
| Predecessor | BookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc. |
| Founded | July 14, 2000 in South Carolina, US[1][2] |
| Defunct | July 2018 |
| Fate | Merged into Kindle Direct Publishing |
| Headquarters | , US |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Parent | Amazon.com |
On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was 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]
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.[10][11]
See also
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External links
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- 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
- 2018 mergers and acquisitions
- American companies disestablished in 2018
- United States publishing company stubs