On-Demand Publishing, LLC,

doing business as A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. Registering the fictitious name with ...

CreateSpace, was a

self-publishing Self-publishing is an author-driven publication of any media without the involvement of a third-party publisher. Since the advent of the internet, self-published usually depends upon digital platforms and print-on-demand technology, ranging fro ...

service owned by

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...

. The company was founded in 2000 in

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as BookSurge and was acquired by

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 On-demand or on demand may refer to: Manufacturing * Build-on-demand * Just-in-time manufacturing, a methodology for production * Print on demand, printing technology and business process in which new copies of a document are not printed until ...

, 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

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

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* (Redirects to KDP) 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 2018 mergers and acquisitions American companies disestablished in 2018 {{US-publish-company-stub

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