Achieving Translation Success for Your Bestselling Book in Different Languages?
Books have always been a powerful tool for sharing stories, ideas, and cultures. In today's interconnected world, language is an opportunity for books to reach millions more and build an international readership. Translating a successful book is a low-risk, high-reward strategy for tapping into new markets without creating new content.
With VerboLabs' professional book translation services, authors can connect with new readers, enter new markets, and multiply their success. In multilingual countries like India, South Africa, Canada, and Switzerland, translating into regional languages can boost accessibility and inclusivity.
Translating a bestselling book offers significant benefits. It expands the audience by reaching non-English speakers, taps into new and diverse markets, increases potential sales, and diversifies income streams. Since less than 20% of the world speaks English, translation enables authors to access hundreds of thousands of additional readers globally. It also reduces competition in foreign markets where fewer translated books exist, increasing profitability.
VerboLabs can assist in this process by providing expert translation services tailored for books. They combine advanced AI translation tools with human proofreading by native speakers to ensure high-quality, culturally accurate translations. This approach helps save costs compared to manual translation alone while maintaining the professionalism required for literary works.
VerboLabs may also help with managing publishing rights, contracts, and navigating copyright and subsidiary rights issues inherent in book translations, ensuring legal compliance and properly handling international rights, which is crucial when dealing with translations.
A bestseller carries weight, making it more likely for readers in other languages to trust it. Literary translation for bestsellers has become a vital strategy for authors and publishers aiming to grow globally. In non-English-speaking markets like Germany, Japan, France, Brazil, or China, localized translations that respect idioms, metaphors, and storytelling structures are necessary.
Partnering with VerboLabs can help translate a bestseller and make it a global success. They cater to independent authors, publishing houses, literary agencies, eBook platforms, and audiobook publishers exploring new geographies. Millions of readers abroad crave books in their heritage language, making translations culturally relevant for global communities.
Literary translation requires deep understanding of the source language, the target language, and cultural storytelling techniques. Translated books contribute to over 15% of total publishing revenue in multilingual markets like India, Europe, and LATAM. VerboLabs' human translators are supported by AI-assisted QA tools to ensure consistency, tone, and linguistic accuracy without compromising creativity.
VerboLabs specializes in literary translation services across genres—fiction, non-fiction, children's books, poetry, and more. They have a proven track record, with a leading Indian publisher collaborating with VerboLabs to translate 5 of their English titles into Hindi, Tamil, and Marathi, resulting in a 32% increase in regional sales within 6 months and thousands of new readers acquired across tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
Translation offers a faster route to revenue compared to writing a new installment or spin-off. The author, translator, and editor often collaborate in successful book translation. VerboLabs translates in 120+ global and regional languages, including Hindi, Tamil, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, German, and more.
Harry Potter and The Alchemist are examples of books that have become global cultural phenomena due to translation. Fifty Shades of Grey was translated into 52 languages and became a global publishing sensation. The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi gained more fame when translated into Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi.
At VerboLabs, literary translators are published authors, poets, and scholars fluent in the target language, who recreate the voice, tone, and emotion of the original work. Their project management system ensures timely delivery, error-free formatting, and multi-format output, whether for one title or an entire catalogue. VerboLabs offers end-to-end literary localization services, including proofreading, cultural and regional adaptation, DTP, audiobook translation & voiceover, eBook formatting & typesetting.
72.1% of readers prefer buying books in their native language. With VerboLabs, authors can tap into this preference, reaching readers who may have otherwise missed their stories. Translation is not just about making books accessible; it's about sharing stories, ideas, and cultures with the world.
- With VerboLabs' expertise in literary translation, authors can reach non-English speakers in various markets like Germany, Japan, France, Brazil, or China, enhancing their potential sales and diversifying income streams.
- In multilingual countries such as India, South Africa, Canada, and Switzerland, translating books into regional languages can boost accessibility and inclusivity, connecting with millions more readers and building an international readership.
