CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryPublishing, Book publishing
PredecessorBookSurge Inc.; CustomFlix Labs Inc.
FoundedJuly 14, 2000; 26 years ago (2000-07-14) in South Carolina, US
DefunctJuly 2018; 8 years ago (2018-07)
FateMerged into Kindle Direct Publishing
Headquarters
Scotts Valley, California
,
US
Area served
Worldwide
ParentAmazon.com
Websitewww.createspace.com Edit this at Wikidata

On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon. The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and acquired by Amazon in April 2005, three months before Amazon also bought the Santa Cruz County, California DVD-on-demand distributor CustomFlix Labs.

History

CreateSpace did not edit or verify submitted books, rejecting only placeholder text. Books were printed on demand, meaning each volume was produced in response to an actual purchase on Amazon.

Alongside books, the service manufactured DVDs and audio CDs on demand after Amazon bought CustomFlix Labs in July 2005. Started in 2002 in Santa Cruz County, California, CustomFlix and later CreateSpace let microbudget and independent filmmakers, television networks, and musicians mail in master discs at no upfront cost, assigning UPC barcodes and burning individual DVD-R or CD copies in printed cases as orders came in on Amazon. This made CreateSpace one of the few ways for filmmakers using non-traditional distribution to earn revenue without paying upfront for inventory. Amazon later added an Amazon Video on Demand option to CreateSpace, though users complained that its clunky menus buried their titles. After YouTube lifted its 10-minute upload limit in 2010, Film distribution on YouTube and the broader move away from physical media made the disc service less useful.

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.

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's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.

See also

References

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