What Does a Book Translator Do?

Book translation mainly refers to the activities of translating various books and publications.

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Book translation mainly refers to the activities of translating various books and publications.

Introduced books are the citron of the market. Major publishers pay close attention to European and American book rankings and speed up the introduction of books. However, due to the low income and high pressure of book translation work, there are fewer people who are full-time engaged in translation work, which leads to the poor translation quality of some of the introduced books and readers' incomprehension. Such poor reader feedback is also indirect. Affects book copyright transactions between China and foreign countries. ^[1]

There is a fixed model of subcontracting in the book translation industry in China: the state formulates a book promotion plan, the publishing house is responsible for planning translation projects required by the state, private companies undertake translation projects, translation companies specifically arrange translation work, and specific translators are responsible for translation Finally, it was fed back to the publishing house layer by layer, and finally iteratively formed a translated book. ^[2]

For book translation, there are three ways to pay, royalties, basic manuscript plus several manuscripts, or one-time payment. Royalty is the remuneration paid by the user to the copyright owner in the form of book pricing × actual sales or number of copies × royalty rate. Basic manuscript remuneration refers to the remuneration paid by the user to the copyright owner in thousands of words based on the word count of the work. Remuneration for printed manuscripts refers to the remuneration paid by the user to the copyright owner at a certain percentage of the basic manuscript remuneration based on the number of copies of the book in thousands of units. One-time payment refers to the one-time payment paid by the user to the copyright owner based on factors such as the quality of the work, the length of the work, the popularity of the author, the influence, the use method, the scope of use, and the term of authorization. ^[3]