Editorial translations of works and books for publishing houses

The drafting of editorial content can pass from editorial translations "to the letter" to translations "of common sense" or from translation tout court to transcreation or metalinguistic creation.
With our editorial translation agency you will have the opportunity to define and calibrate, according to your needs, the degree of freedom our translators have when working on your texts. These levels of interpretation are delimited by the following levels:

• translation to the letter (which is adhered to when, for the author, each word must be perfectly transposed into the language of translation - a word for a word, even trying to respect its order - transposition that is still based on the common sense of the editorial translator)
• semi-creative translation that is not a total abstraction from the letter of the original text, from the "body" of the words that compose it (for the translation of books and novels)
• creative translation or transcreation for the creation of a new editorial content in which the translator has absolute freedom when interpreting and transposing ideas and concepts of the source text
• Editorial style guides for editorial translations: use of the 'second person singular', depending on the sensitivity of the reader or the country of destination, a colloquial/informal or refined/solemn style (the author can voluntarily use, alternately, the combination of different registers), desired level of localization (adaptation by covering places, products, etc.; transposition of cultural references and idioms (idioms and standard phrases); substitutions of character names; coin locations, etc.

The editorial translation service provided respects the indications transmitted by the author because it is necessary to maintain the identity of the writing unchanged, making the most of the propaganda value of the title - an editorial element useful to attract the reader's attention; the title that can reappear in the internal pages, sometimes exploiting the connected puns, double meanings, etc.

The freedom allowed to the translation of the title. The editorial team of Translation-IN will be at your disposal in case the graphics and images of the cover need to be adapted to the new translated version of the work.

Editorial area assigned to the translation of the description of the topics covered in the book and the most interesting ideas that can attract readers. As for the title and the front cover, the attention level must be kept as high as possible during the translation of the author's summary presentation, the summary of the work, mentions of criticism, credits, etc.

It is often a matter of just repeating the title of the work – the name of the author and the publishing house.

Small text (often on two lines) that is at the beginning of a book to be translated accurately - respecting the legal mentions, the name and address of the publishing house, the printer (only for the versions distributed by traditional publishing), any collaborators, photo credits, etc.

During the translation projects regarding illustrated books, languages with different alphabets of the Latin alphabet, such as Greek (Greek), Russian (Cyrillic), or oriental languages (sinograms, Japanese kana, etc.), we transcribe the names of people, if they are not known to the target audience. For example, for the Chinese market, we transcribe the names of people unknown to the Chinese public/market and maintain the Latin alphabet for universally known characters, such as William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, etc.

Translation from the punctuation rules in use in the target country: types of quotation marks, quotation marks in quotations, quotation marks in direct speech, quotation marks in quotation marks, hyphens for dialogues, spaces between elements of punctuation, etc.

Proofreading by a second translator or by the same translator, according to the set budget. This revision allows you to:

• Make sure that no typos are left in the translated text (spelling, incorrect spacing, etc.)
• Check that all editorial rules are respected (punctuation, hyphenation, etc.).

• Font types = do not use more than two or three different ones;
• Kerning = correctly dose the spacing between two letters of the same word, and tracking, the space between all letters or all words, is fundamental to maintain linearity when reading;
• Line spacing = space between two lines of written text that must not be too compact or too detached;
• Alignment = choose between alignment or justified so as not to create problems of immediacy in reading. Ideally, blocks of text should not exceed 65 characters.