EPUB translation · Japanese → EnglishBeta
Translate your book from Japanese to English.
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A real example
One passage, as our Japanese → English translation produced it
昼飯を食ってから早速清へ手紙をかいてやった。おれは文章がまずい上に字を知らないから手紙を書くのが大嫌いだ。またやる所もない。しかし清は心配しているだろう。難船して死にやしないかなどと思っちゃ困るから、奮発して長いのを書いてやった。その文句はこうである。
After eating lunch, I promptly sat down and wrote a letter to Kiyo. I'm a poor hand at composition to begin with, and on top of that I don't know many characters, so I absolutely hate writing letters. Besides, there's nothing to write about. But I figured Kiyo would be worrying. It would never do for her to imagine I'd gone down in a shipwreck or something, so I steeled myself and wrote her a long one. It went like this:
From 夏目漱石『坊っちゃん』(1906), a public-domain book from our quality tests. Unedited.
What you get
- Two editionsBilingual (Japanese paragraph, then English) and English only — EPUB, ready for any reader.
- The whole book, kept intactChapters, images, links and the table of contents stay where they were.
- An exact price before you payWe count the characters we will translate; page numbers, indexes and code are left out of the count.
- 48 hours, or a full refundAnd anything left untranslated is refunded automatically.
- PrivateYour book is visible only to your account, and its files are deleted 7 days after delivery.
Questions
How much does it cost to translate a book from Japanese to English?
US$0.053 per 1,000 characters of text we translate, with a minimum of US$2.99 a book. A typical 90,000-character book costs US$4.80. You see the exact price, and what will and won't be translated, before you pay.
What do I get?
Two EPUB files: a bilingual edition with each Japanese paragraph followed by its English translation, and a English-only edition. Chapters, images, links and the table of contents are kept.
How good is the translation?
It is a machine translation by a large language model, checked automatically paragraph by paragraph. This pair is in beta: tested on whole books, with real orders still calibrating it. Read a free sample chapter of your own book before you decide — and anything left untranslated is refunded automatically.
Which books can I translate?
Books you have the right to translate: your own work, a work you hold a translation licence for, a work under an open licence, or one in the public domain. DRM-protected files are refused. Buying an ebook does not by itself give you the right to translate it.
Can I publish the translation?
If you hold the rights, yes — but you must not present it as a human translation, and you are responsible for any rules about labelling AI-translated content where you publish (some stores, such as Amazon KDP, ask you to declare it).
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