It's taken over a year, but two Pat Ruger mysteries, "For Hire" and "Caribbean Shuffle," have been released for sale in China. Rather than relying on the Amazon-translated version, a Chinese publisher, Fiberead, agreed to take on all the novels in the series to translate and take them to market in China.
If you've ever used a translating program, you know that nuances are often lost in the conversion and the translation is practically word-by-word. This doesn't especially work well in fiction, where descriptions of action, characters and scenes, as well as dialog, can be vital to the plot and to readers' understanding of the story. Publishers like Fiberead hire translators who speak Chinese and English to manually convert books to the desired dialect of Chinese. They are able to review a section or even a chapter and make sure that nuance, context and continuity are maintained. The next three books in the series are currently being translated and will be released on their own timetables. Subsequent books will also become Fiberead projects. More info to come... 
2 Comments
Kathi
9/20/2018 07:23:18 pm
Cool. Good luck. Huge market available there.
Robert
2/24/2019 04:10:17 pm
It's a huge market but the more I look at Fiberead, the more I believe it's not a very serious site.My first book was translated and put on review nearly 1 yr ago and it's still only on PUBU (which basically means it's not sold in China) and the second one has been stuck in the typesetting step (the step where they put the title on the cover) for 2 months... so, this book will probably never see the light. Not very encouraging or serious. Leave a Reply. |
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