A studio service
One client book, forty-three languages.
Every finished client book is an asset your agency can sell again — as a German edition, a Spanish edition, an Arabic edition. We deliver in the languages KDP supports for the format being sold: translation, typesetting, and per-marketplace metadata, with the illustrations reused across every edition so each added language costs less than the last.
N° 01The economics
The art is paid for. Editions are margin.
In a picture book, illustration is the expensive part — and it doesn't need translating. Once a client's book exists in English, every further edition reuses the same spreads and swaps only the text layer, the cover typography, and the metadata. The second language costs a fraction of the first book; the fifth costs less again.
For your agency that's the cleanest upsell in publishing: no new creative work to sell, just new markets for a book the client already loves. KDP's language support is set per format rather than as one list — Polish is paperback and hardcover only, Arabic and the Indic languages are eBook only, and Turkish is not supported at all — so each edition is confirmed before translation, and each one is a separate listing earning on its own.
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Translation for read-aloud
Picture-book text is meant to be read aloud, so editions are translated for rhythm and warmth in the target language, not word-for-word equivalence.
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Typesetting per language
German runs long, Japanese sets vertically by convention, Tamil and Malayalam need script-aware fonts — each edition is re-set into the spreads, not squeezed into the English text boxes.
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RTL handling for Arabic
Arabic editions are properly mirrored: right-to-left reading order, page progression, cover orientation, and typography handled as a first-class edition, not a flipped afterthought.
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Per-marketplace metadata
Title, subtitle, description, and keywords localised for each Amazon marketplace — a German edition with German search metadata on amazon.de, not English metadata translated literally.
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Illustrations carried over
The same approved artwork anchors every edition, so the brand of the book stays identical worldwide and the per-language cost keeps falling.
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Launch sequencing
Editions released in a deliberate order across Amazon marketplaces — biggest markets first, review momentum carried from one launch to the next.
N° 02Proof it works
We publish our own editions this way.
This is the process behind our own catalogue, not a service invented for a landing page. Our own published titles include German editions — Nell und die Sonnenblumen-Neun and Pip und das stille Haus are live on amazon.de alongside their English originals — produced exactly this way: same illustrations, re-set text, localised metadata.
Your agency presents the multilingual programme as its own capability; we run the production line behind it and hand over unbranded, marketplace-ready files and live listings.
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Same pipeline, new text layer
Editions run through the same layout and KDP-formatting stages as the original book, so quality is identical in every language.
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Native-speaker review
Every translation is reviewed by a native speaker before typesetting — read-aloud books are unforgiving of stiff phrasing, and reviews on foreign marketplaces are unforgiving of errors.
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One listing per language
Each edition is its own KDP listing on the right marketplace, linked where Amazon supports it, each earning and ranking independently.
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Unbranded delivery
Files, listings, and launch plans arrive clean of our name — your agency fronts the whole programme to its client.
Investment
Named engagements. Wholesale rates.
From one added language to a roster-wide catalogue programme. Each edition is quoted line by line, wholesale to your agency — volume pricing on request.
Second-language edition
On requestper edition
One book into one new language — the natural first upsell.
- Translation + native-speaker review
- Full re-typesetting into the spreads
- Localised cover typography
- Per-marketplace metadata
- Live listing on the target marketplace
Language pack
On requestper book, 3–5 languages
One book into the major European marketplaces in one engagement.
- Everything per edition, across the pack
- Sequenced marketplace launches
- Falling per-language rate inside the pack
- Consolidated edition report
- RTL edition available in any pack
Catalogue programme
On requestmulti-book, multi-language
An agency's whole client roster, systematically internationalised.
- Everything in Language pack
- Roster-wide language strategy
- Standing translation & typesetting capacity
- Priority scheduling
- Deepest volume rates
Pricing is per edition and falls as languages are added, because the illustration cost is never paid twice — volume pricing on request. A quote lists each language line by line so your agency can price its own markup per market.
Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Are translations reviewed by native speakers?
- Yes, always. Every edition passes a native-speaker review before typesetting — for read-aloud rhythm, idiom, and age-appropriateness, not just accuracy. A picture book that scans badly aloud gets returned in reviews, whatever the marketplace.
- Which languages can you deliver?
- Whatever KDP supports for the format you are selling — checked per title before anyone translates a word. Amazon publishes no single total, and support differs by format: Polish is paperback and hardcover only, while Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati and Marathi are eBook only. Turkish is not supported in any format at all. Each edition is rebuilt around the new text, not a translation dropped into an English layout.
- How does pricing scale with language count?
- Downward. The first edition of a book carries setup that later ones reuse — the artwork, the layout grid, the character of the cover. Each added language is priced lower than the last, which is why the language pack and catalogue tiers carry the best rates. Volume pricing on request.
- How is Arabic handled?
- As a proper right-to-left edition: mirrored page progression, RTL text flow, Arabic typography chosen for children's reading, and a correctly oriented cover. It goes through the same native-speaker review as every other language.
- Do the illustrations change between editions?
- No — that's the economic point. The approved artwork is constant across all editions; only text, cover typography, and metadata are localised. The book looks identical on every marketplace, and the per-language cost keeps falling because the art is never re-made.
- Does each language get its own Amazon listing?
- Yes. Each edition is published as its own listing on the appropriate marketplace with localised metadata, so it ranks in local search on its own merits. We sequence the launches so early editions build momentum for later ones.
Next step
Sell every client book more than once.
Tell us which client book you'd internationalise first and the markets you have in mind — we'll reply within two business days with a per-language quote and a launch sequence.