After five years of their ambitious initiative to publish literature in translation, Amazon Publishing’s Amazon Crossing announced a “$10 million commitment over the next five years to increase the number and diversity of its books in translation” (so $2 million a year.) That money “will go toward fees paid to translators,” the company said, “and increasing the countries and languages represented on the Amazon Crossing list.” The company has also opened a website “for authors, agents and publishers to suggest titles for translation.” They will consider the following categories: mystery, thriller, women’s fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction, memoir, science fiction and fantasy. Publisher […]
