An AI Book Translator That Translates the Book, Not a Pile of Chapters
Pasting chapters into a translation box gives you twenty separately translated documents and none of the things that make them one book: a title that matches the blurb, character names spelled the same way in chapter two and chapter nineteen, a cover with the right words on it. Here you pick a finished book from your library, pick a language, and get a second edition that sits beside the first.
What comes across
15 credits per chapter plus 30 for the cover, blurb, outline and metadata. Translation is on the Pro plan and above.
Open the Book Translator toolWatch a book get translated
Choosing the source book, choosing the target language, and the translated edition arriving in the library next to the original.
Recorded in the product. No edits to the interface.
What Comes Across, and What Stays Put
A translation run rewrites the whole book record, not just the prose. Three groups of things move, and a fourth group deliberately does not.
Every written chapter is translated one to one — no summarising, no paraphrasing, no quiet improvement. The chapter outline comes with it, and so do the character sheets, so the translated edition has the same working scaffolding behind it as the original rather than a stack of loose text. For non-fiction, citations and reference material stay attached to the chapters they belong to.
The instruction the translator works under is explicit: preserve every nuance, idiom intent, name and formatting tag, so a native reader reads it as natural prose rather than as a translation.
Title, subtitle, description, blurb, acknowledgements, dedication and the copyright page are all translated in the same pass. This is the part that usually gets forgotten and then has to be redone by hand the day before you upload to a store, in a language you may not read well enough to check.
Your author name stays the same person — only the script is adjusted if the target language genuinely requires it, never swapped for a different culture's name.
The cover is reframed and its text set in the new language across the aspect ratios a store needs. The instruction is to keep the same illustration, the same characters, objects and background — the same cover at a different size with different words, not a new cover that happens to be about the same book.
You get a cover set for the translated edition that a reader would recognise as the same book.
Names of characters and places stay as they are unless there is a localized equivalent you would clearly want. And the source book is not touched at all: the translation is inserted as a new book, so the original stays exactly where it was, with its own chapters, cover and publishing settings.
Two editions, two entries in your library, both editable, neither one overwriting the other.
How a Translation Run Works
Five steps. Most of it is one screen and a language selector; the interesting part is what happens after you press go.
Pick the book
Any book in your library with written chapters, fiction or non-fiction. That includes books you imported from a .docx rather than wrote here, so a manuscript finished in Word can be translated the same way.
Pick the language
Thirty-seven languages and regional variants, from Spanish for Spain and for Latin America through to Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, Ukrainian, Bengali and Tagalog — including the four English variants, which matter more than they sound if you sell into both the US and UK stores.
Confirm the cost
The price is computed from the chapter count before anything runs: 15 credits per chapter plus 30 for the cover, blurb, outline and metadata. A twenty-chapter book is 330 credits. Credits are taken once, at the end of a successful run.
The run
Chapters, outline, characters, metadata and cover are translated in parallel rather than one after another, so a long book does not take proportionally longer than a short one. You can leave the page — the translated book is waiting when you come back.
Edit and publish
The translated edition opens as its own book, with the same editor, cover tools and publishing step as any other. Rewrite a paragraph, regenerate the cover, adjust the blurb, then export — DOCX on any paid plan, formatted PDF, EPUB and print-ready files on Pro.
Why Whole-Book Context Changes the Output
The hard problems in translating a novel are not sentences. They are the pronoun you have to choose in a language that marks formality, the nickname that appeared once in chapter three and needs to still be the same person in chapter twenty, the term of art in a non-fiction book that must not drift into three synonyms. A tool that sees one chapter at a time cannot get those right, because the information it needs is in a different chapter.
One to one, on purpose
The translator is instructed not to add, remove, summarise, paraphrase or improve. It is a localization pass over your book, not a rewrite of it.
Names held steady
Character and place names stay as written unless there is a localized equivalent you would clearly want — which is what keeps a cast recognisable across four hundred pages.
Formatting survives
Formatting is preserved through the translation rather than flattened, so a book that came in with headings and emphasis does not come out as one long block.
Citations kept in place
For non-fiction, citations and reference material stay attached to their chapters, and terms that should remain in the original language are left alone.
What You Get Back
A second edition that behaves like a book in your account, not an export you have to reassemble.
A Separate Title, Not an Overwrite
The translation is created as a new book linked back to the original. Both stay in your library, both are fully editable, and publishing one has no effect on the other. You can translate the same book into several languages and keep every edition.
Thirty-Seven Languages and Variants
Including the distinctions that matter commercially: English US, UK, Australia and India; Spanish for Spain and for Latin America; Portuguese for Brazil and for Portugal; French for France and for Canada; simplified and traditional Chinese.
Fiction and Non-Fiction Both
Fiction carries characters and the story outline across. Non-fiction carries the chapter outline, the reference material and the citations. Neither is a special case bolted onto the other.
The Whole Publishing Record
Title, subtitle, description, blurb, acknowledgements, dedication and copyright page all come over translated, so the store listing for the new edition is not a separate afternoon of work.
A Cover That Matches
The cover text is set in the new language and reframed across the aspect ratios stores ask for, with the illustration preserved rather than regenerated.
Imported Books Work Too
A manuscript you wrote elsewhere and imported here can be translated like anything else. The translator does not care where the chapters came from, only that they exist.
Who Translates a Book This Way
Four situations where a second edition is worth more than a second book.
Selling Into More Than One Store
A backlist title that has stopped growing in English has an untouched audience in Spanish, German or Portuguese. The book already exists; the translation is the cheapest new inventory you can create.
Authors Writing in a Second Language
You write comfortably in your own language and sell into English. Write the book properly first, then translate it, rather than writing a weaker book directly in English.
Non-Fiction With a Fixed Vocabulary
A method, a framework or a professional guide where the same term has to mean the same thing on page ten and page two hundred, and the citations have to survive the trip.
A Series, Volume by Volume
Translate book one, see how it sells, then translate the rest. Each edition is its own title, so a series can exist in two languages at different depths.
What a Translation Costs
Priced from the chapter count, shown before the run, charged once at the end.
Per book
The 30 covers the cover, blurb, outline and metadata in one pass. A twenty-chapter book is 330 credits; a forty-chapter book is 630. There is no separate per-word charge and no subscription on top.
- Every written chapter, translated one to one
- Outline, characters and citations included
- Cover text re-rendered across store aspect ratios
After the run
Pro plan featureThe translated book behaves like any other book in your account. Editing it, exporting it and publishing it cost what those actions always cost — nothing extra for being a translation.
- Fully editable in the ordinary chapter editor
- DOCX export on any paid plan, formatted exports on Pro
- Translate the same book into as many languages as you like
Translation Questions, Answered
What authors ask before putting a finished book through it.
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Contact SupportKeep Exploring
What sits either side of a translation.
Book Translator Tool
The tool itself — pick a book, pick a language, run it.
AI Book Series Generator
Continue a series, then translate the volumes one by one.
AI Book Editor
Get the original clean before you translate it into anything.
Amazon KDP Guide
Publishing a second-language edition into the stores that sell it.
Give a Finished Book a Second Audience
The book is already written. A translation run turns it into a second edition — chapters, outline, characters, blurb, front matter and cover — sitting in your library beside the original, ready to be read and edited before it goes anywhere.