On-Demand Publishing, LLC,
doing business as
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CreateSpace, is a
self-publishing service owned by
Amazon
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. The company was founded in 2000 in
South Carolina
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as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005.
History
CreateSpace publishes books containing any content at all other than just
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. It neither edits nor verifies. Books are printed
on demand, meaning each volume is produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.
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.
In July 2018, CreateSpace announced it would be transferring media to Amazon's Media on Demand services in the following months. CreateSpace merged with
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
's
Kindle Direct Publishing
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(KDP) service later that year.
See also
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Audiobook Creation Exchange
Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace for professional narrators, authors, agents, publishers and rights holders to connect and create audiobooks. ACX was launched by Audible on May 12, 2011.
Overview
ACX is owned and operated by A ...
(ACX)
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List of books published by CreateSpace
References
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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
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