CreateSpace.com

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CreateSpace.com was a self-publishing platform which, as an “Independent Publishing Platform”, enabled the distribution of self-publications in the form of books as print and e-book editions as well as data carriers with music and film recordings without being bound by a publisher and without prepayment costs. The media company was a subsidiary of Amazon.com , based in North Charleston , South Carolina ( USA ). CreateSpace had offered its services worldwide over the Internet . Its services have been transferred to Kindle Direct Publishing within Amazon.com since the end of 2018 .

history

Forerunner companies were BookSurge Inc. and CustomFlix Labs, Inc.

BookSurge started in 2000 as a self-publishing platform for authors who, as self-publishers , want to produce their books using the print-on-demand method and distribute them online. CustomFlix began in 2002 as a DVD-on-Demand company aimed at self-publishing by independent filmmakers.

Both companies were taken over by Amazon.com in 2005 .

In 2007 the name CustomFlix was changed to CreateSpace . In October 2009, CreateSpace and BookSurge were merged under the name CreateSpace in order to now offer their previously separately offered services under one roof.

Since the end of 2018, the services within Amazon.com have been transferred to Kindle Direct Publishing , the CreateSpace brand seems to be no longer used as things stand.

Business model

CreateSpace was a DBA for On-Demand Publishing LLC and, as such, part of the Amazon group of companies. The business model was based on the print-on-demand idea: instead of pre-financing and producing a fixed run, the content was digitized. Books or data carriers were only printed or created when ordered - on demand . CreateSpace offered the production and delivery of books and data carriers and, as a system service provider, also ensured their distribution.

Under Amazon, their publications are still marked with CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform .

For the previously possible circle of customers of CreateSpace → see the sections under Reasons in the article Self-publication .

particularities

The CreateSpace Internet portal was only available in English .

Due to the direct connection to the bar assortment of the Amazon Internet bookstores , all titles stored in CreateSpace have been transferred to Kindle Direct Publishing and are therefore still available almost worldwide via the Internet, but currently only in the USA in stationary bookshops. E-books were previously directly linked, now detached, with Kindle Direct Publishing and produced exclusively for Amazon's own Kindle reader .

At CreateSpace, the creation of books - be it as a print medium or e-book - as well as the creation of data carriers for music and film recordings were free of charge, provided that no additional services (e.g. for marketing) were used. In the case of the delivery of a smaller number of author's copies in Europe, the author discounts granted were offset by comparatively significant shipping costs for a delivery from the USA that usually took several weeks. For clients within Europe it was therefore cheaper for small quantities (up to approx. Ten copies) to purchase their own titles like a regular customer via the domestic Amazon providers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to development and history of CreateSpace (Engl.) ( Memento of 15 March 2018 Internet Archive ), online at createspace.com
  2. ↑ Buying Copies of Your Own Book ( Memento from January 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Price calculator from CreateSpace, in which the shipping costs for author's copies had to be calculated under Order Shipping Calculator ; online at createspace.com .

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