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On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-4[4] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.cite-ref-5[5]

CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text.cite-ref-6[6] It neither edited nor verified. Books were printed on demand, meaning each volume was produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.cite-ref-7[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.cite-ref-8[8]

In July 2018, CreateSpace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months.cite-ref-9[9] CreateSpace merged with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.cite-ref-10[10]cite-ref-11[11]

• See also

• References

• External links

• Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX)

cite-note-11. "BOOKSURGE, LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-22. "Amazon.com Acquires BookSurge LLC". Business Wire. April 4, 2005. Archived from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-33. ↑ "ON-DEMAND PUBLISHING LLC". OpenCorporates. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefsegrist2019Segrist, Liz (February 22, 2019). "CreateSpace to lay off 58 employees". Charleston Business Journal. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-55. ↑ citerefmoore2016Moore, Thad (November 28, 2016). "Amazon to move book-making warehouse in North Charleston, cutting 149 jobs". The Post and Courier. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-66. ↑ citerefflood2018Flood, Allison (April 27, 2018). "Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 21, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-77. ↑ citerefroemeling2018Roemeling, Alisha (April 12, 2018). "Writing a Dog's Tale". Eugene Register-Guard. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-88. ↑ "Number of books self-published via CreateSpace in the United States from 2010 to 2018". Archived from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.

cite-note-99. ↑ "Amazon Media on Demand: Moving from CreateSpace to Amazon Media on Demand". manufacturing.amazon.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.

cite-note-1010. ↑ "CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing: What You Should Do Next". August 2018. Archived from the original on September 30, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

cite-note-1111. ↑ "CreateSpace Member Agreement". kdp.amazon.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.

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