Selling Short Story Translations Thread poster: Eric Stone
| Eric Stone Taiwan Local time: 21:20 Chinese to English
(Not sure if this is the best forum for this question; please let me know if there's a better one you would suggest.) On top of my regular commissioned translation projects, I sometimes like to translate old stories from my source language to my target language, and recently I've been thinking about trying to sell some of them (*note that the source text for many of these stories is 300 - 2000 years old, from Classical Chinese -- thus, there shouldn't be a copyright issue.) ... See more (Not sure if this is the best forum for this question; please let me know if there's a better one you would suggest.) On top of my regular commissioned translation projects, I sometimes like to translate old stories from my source language to my target language, and recently I've been thinking about trying to sell some of them (*note that the source text for many of these stories is 300 - 2000 years old, from Classical Chinese -- thus, there shouldn't be a copyright issue.) Does anyone have experience with translating literature or other non-commissioned texts and then trying to sell them as a business practice? I'd greatly appreciate any advice on how to go about doing this. For instance, should I be targeting magazines? Or newspapers? Who do I contact about this within the target publication? etc. Thanks, ▲ Collapse | | | Barbara Carrara Italy Local time: 15:20 Member (2008) English to Italian + ... | Recep Kurt Türkiye Local time: 16:20 Member (2011) English to Turkish + ...
How about selling your translations as e-books? If the original titles are copyright-free, you might be able to translate and sell them as e-books. It might be worthwhile to look into this option. | | |
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Eric Stone Taiwan Local time: 21:20 Chinese to English TOPIC STARTER
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