Self-publishing service
On-Demand Publishing, LLC , doing business as CreateSpace , was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon .[ 3] [ 4] 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] 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] Amazon 's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service later that year.[ 10] [ 11]
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