Subsidiary | |
Industry | Publishing, Book publishing |
Predecessor | BookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc. |
Founded | July 14, 2000South Carolina, US[1] | in
Headquarters | , US |
Area served | Worldwide |
Parent | Amazon.com |
Website | createspace |
On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, is a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.[2][3] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.[4]
CreateSpace publishes books containing any content at all other than just placeholder text.[5] It neither edits nor verifies. Books are printed on demand, meaning each volume is produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.[6]
In July 2018, Createspace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months.[7] In August, it was revealed that Createspace would merge with Amazon's KDP service.[8]
References
- ^ "BOOKSURGE, LLC". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ "On-Demand Publishing, LLC: Private Company Information". bloomberg.com.
- ^ "CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees". Charleston Business Journal. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Moore, Thad (28 November 2016). "Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs". Post and Courier. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Flood, Allison (27 April 2018). "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Roemeling, Alisha (12 April 2018). "Writing a Dog's Tale". Eugene Register-Guard. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ https://manufacturing.amazon.com/help?pageID=GMJB8EJ8GC26UYX2
- ^ https://1106design.com/2018/08/createspace-and-kindle-direct-publishing/