{"id":689,"date":"2018-01-24T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=689"},"modified":"2018-01-24T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:11:45","slug":"amazon-createspace-to-close-author-services-division-58-jobs-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/01\/24\/689\/amazon-createspace-to-close-author-services-division-58-jobs-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Createspace to close author services division; 58 jobs cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s self-publishing service in the US, Createspace, is cutting 58 jobs and closing its author services division this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/business\/amazon-laying-off-workers-at-north-charleston-self-publishing-business\/article_d623bb16-f7d0-11e7-bef2-d3a151f19a96.html\">the <em>Post and Courier<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After a thorough review of our service offerings, we&#8217;ve made the decision to discontinue Createspace&#8217;s paid professional editing, design and marketing services,&#8217; Amazon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We will work closely with impacted employees through this transition to help them find new roles within the company or assist them with pursuing opportunities outside the company.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs to Createspace\u2019s North Charleston office will begin in March, and the subsidiary&#8217;s service division will close in July this year.<\/p>\n<p>Createspace will continue to print books for authors looking to self-publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s self-publishing service in the US, Createspace, is cutting 58 jobs and closing its author services division this year, according to the Post and Courier. &#8216;After a thorough review of our service offerings, we&#8217;ve made the decision to discontinue Createspace&#8217;s paid professional editing, design and marketing services,&#8217; Amazon said in a statement. &#8216;We will work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-news","8":"category-newsletter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}