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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 was acquired by Amazon in 2005.
CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text.
It neither edited nor verified. Books were printed on demand, meaning each volume was 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 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.
KDP is now used to set up both paperbacks and ebooks on Amazon.
KDP does not offer services to authors other than linking the books to Amazon to sell and providing sales reports.
KDP includes the ability print author copies locally in Europe/Great Britain.
