Surprisingly good quality.

I ordered several paperback of The Godshead for placement in local bookstores when I published it, and found (to my great surprise) that CreateSpace print on demand publishing does excellent work.  That impression was (mostly) reinforced yesterday. 

I ordered four copies each of Survivors and The Last Pendragon a couple of weeks ago.  Like Godshead, Survivors and Pendragon had a cover of glossy-printed heavy cardstock wrapped around nice, crisp white, satisfyingly thick paper pages.  No tissue thin pages where the print rubs off on your fingertips, here.   

Survivors is a slightly smaller book, measuring at about 5"x8", and the printers weren't really careful in the shipping--the books I'd ordered previously were shrinkwrapped together in stacks, packed into boxes, then shipped.  Survivors and Pendragon weren't shrinkwrapped, nor were they packed into a box--rather, they were wrapped in cardboard, like Amazon does sometimes when you order something relatively small.  And the end Survivors was in...came open a bit.  No, I didn't lose any books, but the ends of the spines were scrunched.  Other than that, though, they're as high a quality of books as you'd expect to find in any book store, and higher quality than some mass-printed books.

Pendragon came through with flying colors.  No scrunching, no damage. 

Honestly, if I were shopping at a bookstore, and happened to pick up these books, I'd check the price after looking to see if it were something I wanted to read, then run cackling to the checkout, convinced I was getting a steal, judging by the quality. 

Overall, CreateSpace print on demand books rock the quality.