How to translate and publish a book yourself in another language | Self-Publishing A Book
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Let’s do some maths. To translate a book in another language, you should need a professional translator, right? Let’s say your book is around 50,000 words. On average, the translation cost per word is around 0.12 cents. You multiply that by your 50,000 words and you get exactly 6,000 euros for a book translation. Needless to say this is a huge amount of money. Not everyone is able to pay it upfront when self-publishing your book. It's only possible if you’re going through the traditional publishing path. Which would mean you’d have nothing to pay for any translation as the publishing house pays for everything.
However, if you are fluent in more than one language, you could possibly translate your book into multiple languages without a publishing house or spending money on translations. How? Let me show you how I translated The Londoners in French.
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It's so brilliant that you were able to do this yourself!
That's only because I speak more than one language :) But it's a ton of work so I don't think I'll do it again, hahaha.
Love this! Missed this video, too, but it comes at the right time as I'm drafting questions for our interview! I haven't translated my work, but I wish I could do it myself. Thanks so much for sharing all of this!
Brilliant that it came at the right time, haha. Always a pleasure to share my experience ;) Looking forward to our interview!
"This video is exactly what I was searching for. Thank you!"
Glad it was helpful!
Hi. Thank you so much for making this. I'm actually looking to translate a few french books into english. watching this is a great first step
If this video helped you, even a little, then I’m happy 😊 Thanks for commenting!
Did u do it?
Hello Estelle, its nice to meet you. I am a belgian too, throwing myself into the self-publishing adventures. My first 'serious' book will soon be out. Cheers!
Exciting news! Let me know when it’s out! 😊
Thanks --- very helpful!
Happy to help :)
Thank you for your helpful information xx
Any time!
Hi and thank you! I published my first book on Play Books yesterday. I want to publish it in other languages I know. If you would like to make video about how to publish same book but in different languages on Play Books, I would be interested to watch it. Cheers
That is cool. I left a review on Amazon for your book. I enjoy it.
Thank you ❤
I speak only English but I wish I spoke more, sounds awesome to get books translated!
It is a lot of fun, but then you've got to market it 😂 I don't think people know I've released a French book, hahaha.
I want to learn how to translate from English to French
First step: learn French ;)
I've been thinking about the potential of selling foreign rights to my novels but keeping the English myself via self-publishing (a true hybrid style). It would take a bit of research to see if different markets would be interested enough, as well as a good track record of sales to find interest. Thanks for your insight. It's not something a lot of people think about.
Indeed it’s not something a lot of people think about. In my case, my cousin wanted a French version so badly that he asked and asked and asked again. In the end I just said yes because why not. It’s already almost earning out the cost I’ve put into it in terms of money. There’s a long way to go to earn out the cost in time though 😅🙈
Thanks for that, now I know I'm not the only one hahahahaha
You're definitely not the only one ;)
DeepL is good but it's mostly a hit or miss for most languages. I used it for Chinese and realized that some translations are very accurate while others are beyond worse and that was me using premium. Instead of DeepL I'd rather you use Immersive Translate and select Gemini, Open AI or Claude or you can use all version compare and edit where needed. It saves so much time haa no word limit and it will be done in minutes. But anyways thanks for the tip
Thanks for sharing! :)
I recently published my first book. It’s a children’s picture book. I used a company that I had to pay, because I knew nothing about the process. The book only has a sentence or two on each page of text. There’s white space on the rest of the page. Shouldn’t I be able to take the file of my original book, change the words. And upload? The company is wanting over $1000 from me.
I'm afraid I can't answer your question. It depends on the contract you have with the company, I guess?
I used Deepl but it is not valid to keep the copyright of my book.
Deepl is great to get a first draft of a translated book, but you have to edit it anyway 😉 I don’t recommend you using that first translated draft because it doesn’t have the granularity of a native speaker.
Thank you
Hi my English book is translated in French, Hindi, Spanish and Gujarat. How and where to publish.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Author Elizabeth Das
Hi Elizabeth!
First of all: congratulations on translating your book in so many languages. That's so exciting.
About your question, that's typically the type of things I help authors with in my mentoring program. I'd recommend you to book a call with me so we can discuss it more in depth. The link is here: bit.ly/3C52GG7
Thank you for this information! Btw, if I want to publish my translated book on Amazon, do I need to change the bookcover design for every language I translate the book to?
You don't NEED to. But each market has their specificies in terms of cover liking. You won't see the same cover for the US and the UK in the traditional book market for example. But for us indies, I think the best way is to simply translate the title on the cover.
@@EstelleVandeVelde okay thanks, if the book is written in English and I want to translate to Spanish, French or German. Can I use the same bookcover design for all the translated books to the published on Amazon?
I think you need to re read my previous answer 😅
@@EstelleVandeVelde oh okay! I was in a hurry😄
No problem, haha.
Hi I wish you could just go straight to the point. Some of us only came here to learn about translation
Noted. However, it's about context ;) Even a translation itself is about context.
Bonsoir comment trouver un traducteur professionnel
Bonsoir! Il y a plusieurs façons: le bouche à oreille, une recommandation de quelqu’un, Fiverrr, Reedsy, Facebook, LinkedIn,… les plateformes sont nombreuses.
Hi there! Does the cover have to be in the same language? Thanks!
Your title needs to be the same on the cover and on the Amazon title. For example, I've translated only the subtitle into French, not the main title. But it depends on the audience of the targeted language. Sometimes you'll need to fully translate the title.
@@EstelleVandeVelde thank you. What do think I should go with for Paranormal Shifter Romance?
In German
As I mentioned, the genre doesn't matter, the audience does. Are Germans willing to buy books with English titles if they're translated into their language? I do not have the answer, I've only released in English and French so far.
@@EstelleVandeVelde gotcha!
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