CreateSpace is an online service for the distrbution and selling of media at Amazon.com shopping portals. The service enables the upload, business networking to design covers and to distribute and selling the media by on demand downloads or by discs. Discs are produced by the made to order principle, which means that discs or only produced if an order happens. The latter is cost effective and avoids warehousing. Furthermore modules to sell the media may be intergrated into other sites.
Services to distribute media at other portals are called commerce channels and offered by various shopping portals and third party services. FOLDEN.INFO has an overview available at distribution channels and for online shop solutions with download facilities at shop software.
Similar services are available at music business and music promotion.