How much does it cost to translate a book into a bilingual edition?

One page is 300 words of the original text, whatever the font, layout or file format. A 3-page letter is 3 pages, and a 90,000-word novel is about 300. The page count of your file is on its free preview.

One book, once. When a file needs more pages than you have, you buy a page pack. Nothing renews, the pages stay in your account for your next book, and larger packs cost less per page.

A new account's first book is $1.99 for up to 300 pages, with no subscription.

Or a plan, if you read or translate every month. Plans renew until you cancel, and unused pages do not carry over.

• Reader: $5 a month or $40 a year, 800 pages a month.
• Avid Reader: $10 a month or $80 a year, 2,000 pages a month.

Prices are in US dollars and include tax. The pricing page has the current plans.

The original and the translation sit side by side, rebuilt paragraph by paragraph rather than as a translated page next to the original page, in any of 68 languages. Chapters, headings and the table of contents carry over. You can upload PDF, DOCX, EPUB, TXT or HTML files up to 50 MB; scanned PDFs are read with text recognition. You can download a PDF, an EPUB for Kobo and Apple Books, or AZW3 or MOBI for Kindle.

The file has to be DRM-free, so books bought in the Kindle store cannot be uploaded. The translation is a machine translation, not a polished literary one, and it is for your own reading: publishing a translation needs the rights to the book. If a translation fails, its pages are returned automatically, and if you pay for a new plan and have not used any pages, you can ask for a full refund within 14 days. Your files are not used to train AI models.