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Pricing

One flat price per language. Every sale is yours.

No royalty share, no territory limits, no need to publish through us. A literary translator typically costs $10,000+ per book — most authors start with one language for under $600.

  • ●Up to 120,000 words
  • ●Pay half now, half on delivery
  • ●Free sample first
Most authors start here

Reviewed

$549 per language

The edition most books should publish in.

  • —Full four-pass translation with book bible
  • —Native-speaker editor reviews a 10,000-word sample
  • —Every flagged passage resolved by that editor
  • —EPUB, DOCX and print-ready PDF
  • —Translation brief and provenance record

Ready in 5–8 days

Start with a free sample

Publication

$3,900 per language

When the edition carries your imprint.

  • —Everything in Reviewed
  • —Full line-by-line post-edit of the whole manuscript
  • —Editor named and credited on the title page
  • —Second reader pass for voice and continuity
  • —Localised metadata, blurb and keywords

Ready in 3–5 weeks

Start with a free sample

Optional extras

Only if you want them.

  • Audiobook-ready script$390Pronunciation notes, name glossary and a narrator brief per language.
  • Print typesetting$290Reflowed for expansion, with a print-ready interior PDF at your trim size.
  • Extra editor pass$1,200A second named editor reads the full manuscript independently.
  • Rush sampleFreeSame 24-hour promise. There is no paid queue-jump; we don't sell urgency.
Series & small presses

Translating a whole series?

Five or more books into the same language: 20% off Publication, the same editor across every book so the series reads as one voice, and a shared glossary of names and places.

Twenty or more: we quote the whole list and assign an editor to your imprint.

Read your book in another language before paying anything.

Send the manuscript. Two translated chapters arrive within 24 hours, free, with no commitment.