AI translation for publishing houses

Translate more of your catalogue at a fraction of the usual cost

Publify translates finished titles into text your editor can work with. The author's style, the characters' speech, terminology and structure are kept. You receive DOCX or EPUB and a translated cover.

One chapter from your catalogue, translated within 24 hours. No commitment.

$100–200per book, fixed before we start*
Hoursto translate a full manuscript
100+translation directions — EN↔ES, DE, PL, TR & more
24hfree pilot chapter from your catalogue

Cost per book

At $10,000 or more per title, a translation rarely pays back, so most backlists stay in one language.

Traditional translationPublify
Cost — full-length novel$10,000–15,000$100–200, fixed per book*
Time to manuscript6–12 monthsHours to days; pilot chapter in 24h
DeliverableText, varies by translatorDOCX / EPUB with chapters and images in place, plus a translated cover
ConsistencyDepends on one person's memoryBook-wide glossary: names, terms and character voices pinned across every chapter
ConfidentialityPer-translator NDAService agreement · IP stays yours · NDA before the first file

Your backlist is finished inventory. Test a new market with one title for the price of a team lunch, and translate more of what sells.

Quality your editor can check

What Publify keeps, in commercial and literary fiction alike:

Author's narrative styleSentence rhythm and register are detected per book and enforced in every chapter.
Character voicesA character speaks the same way in chapter twelve as in chapter one.
Terminology & namesOne glossary built up front covers the whole manuscript. John never becomes Juan.
StructureChapters, epigraphs, images and layout arrive where the author put them.

Poetry, heavy wordplay and children's books may still need a human translator's touch. We tell you in advance, title by title.

“Why not just run it through a chatbot?”

Over 300 pages, generic AI loses track: names change, idioms get translated word for word, the author's style gets smoothed out. Pick a language pair to see examples:

Names & glossary

Nicknames and invented terms drift over hundreds of pages. We fix them once for the whole book.

Original

Ch. 1 — “Ash waited by the tide pools.”
Ch. 17 — “Ash was already gone.”

Generic AI

Cap. 1 — «Ash esperaba junto a las pozas de marea.»
Cap. 17 — «La Ceniza ya se había ido.»

By chapter 17 the nickname has turned into an ordinary word, and the reader sees a different character.

Publify

Cap. 1 — «Ash esperaba junto a las pozas de marea.»
Cap. 17 — «Ash ya se había ido.»

The glossary entry is set before translation starts: the nickname stays untranslated.

Idioms

Word-for-word idioms read as nonsense in the target language. We translate the meaning.

Original

“By Sunday the whole street knew — Tom had spilled the beans.”

Generic AI

«Para el domingo toda la calle lo sabía: Tom había derramado los frijoles.»

Translated word for word, it means nothing in the target language.

Publify

«Para el domingo toda la calle lo sabía: Tom se había ido de la lengua.»

Rendered with the target language's own idiom.

Author's voice

Short, clipped sentences are the author's choice. Generic AI “fixes” them; we keep them.

Original

“He didn’t answer. The kettle screamed. Somewhere upstairs, a door.”

Generic AI

«Él no respondió mientras el hervidor gritaba y en algún lugar del piso de arriba se oía una puerta.»

Three short sentences merged into one smooth one, and the tension is gone.

Publify

«No contestó. El hervidor chilló. Arriba, en alguna parte, una puerta.»

Same clipped rhythm the author wrote.

Selected examples of the three most common mistakes. Your free pilot chapter goes through the same checks.

The cover ships with the book

In a new market, readers see the cover first. We translate the text on your existing cover or generate a new one in the same style, with typography in the target language.

This pair is real Publify output: the Spanish cover was generated from the original.

Original edition
Original edition
Spanish edition — generated by Publify
Spanish edition — generated by Publify

How we work

Free pilotOne chapter from your catalogue. Delivered within 24 hours, no commitment.
Editorial reviewYour editor reads the pilot pages and checks the quality and fit with your list.
ContractFixed price per book, depending on length and language pair. NDA before the first file.
DeliveryDOCX or EPUB plus a localized cover. Structure, markup and images intact.

First contact to first delivered book — 2–3 weeks.

Languages

100+ translation directions work today. We add others on request in 1–2 weeks.

EN ↔ ESEN ↔ DEEN ↔ PL EN → TREN → KOEN ↔ RU DE ↔ PLEN → UZ + 40 more

Confidentiality and rights

  • ✓Official service agreement — we sign a service contract with each publisher
  • ✓You retain all IP — the original and the translated version
  • ✓Never published or shared — your files stay between us
  • ✓NDA before the first file — on request, before anything is sent
  • ✓Encrypted EU storage — EU-region servers only

Free pilot: one chapter of your book, translated in 24 hours

Three fields. We reply within 2 business days and take the manuscript from you in any format.

No commitment. We'll reach out within 2 business days.

* Typical full-length novel. Final quote is fixed per book before we start — it depends on length and language pair.