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GlobalAuthor takes your book to a global audience, with either 12 or 31 translations, a course from your book, publish on Amazon, an audiobook (with Ultra) and more!

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Pricing

From $3499

GlobalAuthor has 3 tiers — Pro, Max and Ultra — and all of them are concierge services. Read more below!

GlobalAuthor

The service

Who Is GlobalAuthor For?

GlobalAuthor is for authors who have finished their book in English, and now want to go global!

GlobalAuthor comes in three tiers: Pro, Max, and Ultra, described below. All three are concierge services.

GlobalAuthor Pro includes translating your book into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages — Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish — with TranslateAI, where every page is checked for gremlins. It also includes creating a course with CourseAI, Publish on Amazon for your English book, and a 1-month Shelf Spot.

GlobalAuthor Max upgrades you to CourseAI Pro, with up to 3 hours of video interviews with Len Epp. We also take TranslateAI to all 31 languages, and add IndexAI and AccessibilityAI, also translated into all 31 languages. We also make marketing clips from your interview videos.

GlobalAuthor Ultra is our white-glove flagship: everything in Max, plus an AI-narrated audiobook of your English edition with AudiobookAI, reviewed by Leanpub. We also publish 14 of your 31 translations on Amazon (39 editions in total), and create custom cover pages for all 31 translations.

Want more languages on Pro? You can add any of the other 19 whenever you like with TranslateAI — $349 per language. (Max and Ultra already include all 31.)

Want an audiobook with Pro or Max? Add AudiobookAI for your book whenever you like — $999, with Leanpub's review pass included. (Ultra already includes AudiobookAI.)

Note that Publish on Amazon is in English only for GlobalAuthor Pro and Max. GlobalAuthor Ultra also includes publishing 14 of your 31 translations on Amazon.

If you are just getting started on your book or need some help getting unstuck, consider our Book Weekend — two days with Peter to publish your in-progress book, with six months of Ultra Author included.

The value

Is GlobalAuthor Worth It?

Every GlobalAuthor package is designed to deliver more value than buying the services separately. Here's how each tier stacks up...

GlobalAuthor Pro ($3,499) translates your book into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages with TranslateAI, where every page is checked for gremlins ($4,188 value at $349/language), and creates your course with CourseAI ($499 value) — plus Publish on Amazon ($1,499 value) and a 1-month Shelf Spot ($179 value). That's $6,365 of value for $3,499. This is our recommended package for most authors.

GlobalAuthor Max ($4,999) takes TranslateAI to all 31 languages ($10,819 value), upgrades you to CourseAI Pro ($2,499 value) with up to 3 hours of video interviews with Leanpub co-founder Len Epp, cuts marketing clips from those interviews ($99 value), adds IndexAI ($249 value) and AccessibilityAI ($249 value), translated into all 31 languages — on top of Publish on Amazon and your Shelf Spot. That's $15,593 of value for $4,999.

GlobalAuthor Ultra ($8,499) is our white-glove flagship. It includes everything in Max, plus an AI-narrated audiobook of your English edition with AudiobookAI ($999 value), reviewed by Leanpub, Publish on Amazon for 14 of your 31 translations ($20,986 value at $1,499 per book) and custom cover pages for all 31 translations ($999 value). That's $38,577 of value for $8,499 — for authors who want us to do absolutely everything, everywhere.

All three GlobalAuthor tiers are genuinely good deals — Pro is where a human reads every page of your translations, Max is the complete package with all 31 languages human-checked, and Ultra is the white-glove flagship for authors who want us to do absolutely everything.

An author's story

Testimonial

The video below contains a testimonial from Henrik Kniberg, a Leanpub author who used our GlobalAuthor service for his book Generative AI in a Nutshell. You can see the translations we produced here (just scroll down), and you can see the course we produced here. (Note: The GlobalAuthor service Henrik used is now called GlobalAuthor Ultra — our flagship tier, which includes publishing 14 of your translations on Amazon. GlobalAuthor Pro and Max include publishing your English-language book on Amazon only.)

What's included

Everything You Get in GlobalAuthor Pro

TranslateAI$4,188

Suddenly your book is on sale in the world's biggest book markets, in the reader's own language — each translation a complete, separate Leanpub edition with its own landing page, ready to sell. From English into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Turkish.

CourseAI$499

Your book becomes a structured online course — lessons, quizzes and exercises — after a cleanup pass of your manuscript, with automated QA of every lesson, so it's ready to publish the day it lands. Courses unlock corporate training budgets: they sell at training prices, not ebook prices.

Publish on Amazon$1,499

We publish your English-language book on Amazon for you — Kindle, paperback and hardcover. A true omakase service: we handle categories, keywords, description, pricing and cover design, and deliver a finished product on the store where most of the world shops for books.

1-Month Shelf Spot$179

A full month of promotion: your book featured on the Leanpub homepage and post-purchase Thank You pages — seen by everyone who visits or buys — plus promoted deals in our Weekly and Monthly Sale newsletters, which reach over 130,000 readers.

Total Value: $6,365

You pay only $3499 USD

Choose GlobalAuthor Pro

How it works

What is the GlobalAuthor Pro Process?

The following are the exact steps we will take when you purchase GlobalAuthor Pro.

  1. If your book is in Markua 0.31, we skip to the next step. If your book is in Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua 0.10, we will convert it to Markua 0.31 for you as the first step of the service. (If your book is in Word, EPUB or PDF, you will need to convert it to Markua before purchasing GlobalAuthor. We can give you a custom quote on this if you need help with the conversion.)
  2. We will start by making formatting adjustments to your book to ensure it looks good, and email you for your approval of the formatting. (This will include choosing page sizes, fonts and other theme settings that look good in print and ebooks, etc.)
  3. We will publish your original English-language book on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats using our Publish on Amazon service.
  4. We then translate your book into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages with TranslateAI. TranslateAI uses leading large language models for translations; the specific model we use is chosen on a per-language basis, and we update our choices as better models become available. A Leanpub employee then reviews every page of each translation, to ensure that everything was translated and that the formatting is good.
  5. Leanpub will use our CourseAI process to create a new course for you: a cleanup pass of your manuscript, the AI build, and automated QA of every lesson, quiz and exercise, so that a student can successfully complete the course and get a certificate.
  6. We also give you a 1-month Shelf Spot, which puts your book on the Leanpub homepage for 30 days and features it in one weekly newsletter (sent to over 90,000 people) and one monthly newsletter (sent to over 130,000 people).

What's included

Everything You Get in GlobalAuthor Max

IndexAI$249

A professional back-of-book index — the mark of a serious print book — generated by AI as editable index entries right in your manuscript, and translated into all 31 languages so every print edition gets one.

AccessibilityAI$249

AI-written alt text for every image, in every language, so all your editions work with screen readers. Your book becomes accessible to readers with visual disabilities — increasingly an expectation for institutional and corporate buyers.

TranslateAI$10,819

Your book, on sale in every language Leanpub supports — Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese — each one a complete, separate Leanpub edition with its own landing page, including your translated index and alt text.

CourseAI Pro$2,499

Your book becomes a premium online course: lessons, quizzes and exercises after a cleanup pass of your manuscript and automated QA, plus up to 3 hours of professionally produced video interviews with you woven in. Courses unlock corporate training budgets: they sell at training prices, not ebook prices.

Marketing Clips$99

We cut marketing clips from your professionally produced interview videos — short, punchy segments for YouTube and social media, ready to post to promote your book and your course.

Publish on Amazon$1,499

We publish your English-language book on Amazon for you — Kindle, paperback and hardcover. A true omakase service: we handle categories, keywords, description, pricing and cover design, and deliver a finished product on the store where most of the world shops for books.

1-Month Shelf Spot$179

A full month of promotion: your book featured on the Leanpub homepage and post-purchase Thank You pages — seen by everyone who visits or buys — plus promoted deals in our Weekly and Monthly Sale newsletters, which reach over 130,000 readers.

Total Value: $15,593

You pay only $4999 USD

Choose GlobalAuthor Max

How it works

What is the GlobalAuthor Max Process?

The following are the exact steps we will take when you purchase GlobalAuthor Max.

  1. If your book is in Markua 0.31, we skip to the next step. If your book is in Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua 0.10, we will convert it to Markua 0.31 for you as the first step of the service. (If your book is in Word, EPUB or PDF, you will need to convert it to Markua before purchasing GlobalAuthor. We can give you a custom quote on this if you need help with the conversion.)
  2. We will start by making formatting adjustments to your book to ensure it looks good, and email you for your approval of the formatting. (This will include choosing page sizes, fonts and other theme settings that look good in print and ebooks, etc.)
  3. If your book is nonfiction and if it does not already have an index, we will email you to ask if you want us to create an index for your book, or if you want us to skip that step. If you want an index, the index will be created by our IndexAI service which adds index entries to your manuscript files, so you can always modify it later if you want. Since we create the index first, the index will be in your Amazon book, and translated in all your translations. (We will also email you to ask you to review the index before we proceed, since the index gets translated.)
  4. We then use our AccessibilityAI service to add alt text to all your images for accessibility purposes. We ensure that the EPUB we generate is accessible, and that it passes the Ace by DAISY accessibility checker with no reported issues. Since we do this before any translations, the alt text is also translated in all your translations.
  5. We then create an audiobook of your English edition with AudiobookAI. You pick the narrator voice, reading speed and pronunciation guide on your book's Audiobook settings page and click Generate; Leanpub then reviews the narration — every chapter's opening and close, every passage the narrator flagged, every term in your pronunciation guide, and anything you flag — and fixes anything that went wrong. We do this after the alt text, so your figures are narrated from their descriptions. Everyone who owns your book gets the audiobook in their Leanpub library, on the web and in the Leanpub iPhone app.
  6. We will publish your original English-language book on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats using our Publish on Amazon service.
  7. We then translate your book into all 31 languages supported by TranslateAI with TranslateAI. TranslateAI uses leading large language models for translations; the specific model we use is chosen on a per-language basis, and we update our choices as better models become available. A Leanpub employee then reviews every page of each translation, to ensure that everything was translated and that the formatting is good.
  8. Leanpub will use our CourseAI Pro process to create a new course for you: a cleanup pass of your manuscript, the AI build, and automated QA of every lesson, quiz and exercise, so that a student can successfully complete the course and get a certificate.
  9. We will send you a link to a Calendly page to book your Leanpub interviews with Leanpub cofounder Len Epp. Typically we need 3 sessions of about 1 hour each. We do the video editing, and we add the videos to your course for you.
  10. We then cut marketing clips from your interview videos — short, punchy segments for YouTube and social media, ready to post to promote your book and your course.
  11. We also give you a 1-month Shelf Spot, which puts your book on the Leanpub homepage for 30 days and features it in one weekly newsletter (sent to over 90,000 people) and one monthly newsletter (sent to over 130,000 people).

What's included

Everything You Get in GlobalAuthor Ultra

IndexAI$249

A professional back-of-book index — the mark of a serious print book — generated by AI as editable index entries right in your manuscript, and translated into all 31 languages so every print edition gets one.

AccessibilityAI$249

AI-written alt text for every image, in every language, so all your editions work with screen readers. Your book becomes accessible to readers with visual disabilities — increasingly an expectation for institutional and corporate buyers.

AudiobookAI$999

An AI-narrated audiobook of your English edition — every chapter, with code, figures and tables given their spoken treatment — with a synced transcript, a free sample on your book's page, and delivery to everyone who owns your book, on the web and in the Leanpub iPhone app. Leanpub reviews the narration and fixes anything that went wrong.

TranslateAI$10,819

Your book, on sale in every language Leanpub supports — Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese — each one a complete, separate Leanpub edition with its own landing page, including your translated index and alt text.

CourseAI Pro$2,499

Your book becomes a premium online course: lessons, quizzes and exercises after a cleanup pass of your manuscript and automated QA, plus up to 3 hours of professionally produced video interviews with you woven in. Courses unlock corporate training budgets: they sell at training prices, not ebook prices.

Marketing Clips$99

We cut marketing clips from your professionally produced interview videos — short, punchy segments for YouTube and social media, ready to post to promote your book and your course.

Publish on Amazon$22,485

We publish your English edition plus 14 of your translations on Amazon — Kindle, paperback and hardcover, 39 editions in total — handling categories, keywords, pricing and covers for every single one. Your book, on the world's biggest bookstore, in the world's biggest languages.

Custom Cover Pages$999

A custom cover for every one of your 31 translated editions on Leanpub, so each language edition looks like it was published for that market — because it was.

1-Month Shelf Spot$179

A full month of promotion: your book featured on the Leanpub homepage and post-purchase Thank You pages — seen by everyone who visits or buys — plus promoted deals in our Weekly and Monthly Sale newsletters, which reach over 130,000 readers.

Total Value: $38,577

You pay only $8499 USD

Choose GlobalAuthor Ultra

How it works

What is the GlobalAuthor Ultra Process?

The following are the exact steps we will take when you purchase GlobalAuthor Ultra.

  1. If your book is in Markua 0.31, we skip to the next step. If your book is in Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua 0.10, we will convert it to Markua 0.31 for you as the first step of the service. (If your book is in Word, EPUB or PDF, you will need to convert it to Markua before purchasing GlobalAuthor. We can give you a custom quote on this if you need help with the conversion.)
  2. We will start by making formatting adjustments to your book to ensure it looks good, and email you for your approval of the formatting. (This will include choosing page sizes, fonts and other theme settings that look good in print and ebooks, etc.)
  3. If your book is nonfiction and if it does not already have an index, we will email you to ask if you want us to create an index for your book, or if you want us to skip that step. If you want an index, the index will be created by our IndexAI service which adds index entries to your manuscript files, so you can always modify it later if you want. Since we create the index first, the index will be in your Amazon book, and translated in all your translations. (We will also email you to ask you to review the index before we proceed, since the index gets translated.)
  4. We then use our AccessibilityAI service to add alt text to all your images for accessibility purposes. We ensure that the EPUB we generate is accessible, and that it passes the Ace by DAISY accessibility checker with no reported issues. Since we do this before any translations, the alt text is also translated in all your translations.
  5. We then create an audiobook of your English edition with AudiobookAI. You pick the narrator voice, reading speed and pronunciation guide on your book's Audiobook settings page and click Generate; Leanpub then reviews the narration — every chapter's opening and close, every passage the narrator flagged, every term in your pronunciation guide, and anything you flag — and fixes anything that went wrong. We do this after the alt text, so your figures are narrated from their descriptions. Everyone who owns your book gets the audiobook in their Leanpub library, on the web and in the Leanpub iPhone app.
  6. We will publish your original English-language book on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats using our Publish on Amazon service.
  7. We then translate your book into all 31 languages supported by TranslateAI with TranslateAI. TranslateAI uses leading large language models for translations; the specific model we use is chosen on a per-language basis, and we update our choices as better models become available. A Leanpub employee then reviews every page of each translation, to ensure that everything was translated and that the formatting is good.
  8. We will also publish 14 of your 31 translations on Amazon — Kindle, paperback and hardcover, 39 editions in total with your English book — handling categories, keywords, pricing and covers for every one.
  9. We create a custom cover page for every one of your 31 translated editions on Leanpub, so each language edition looks like it was published for that market.
  10. Leanpub will use our CourseAI Pro process to create a new course for you: a cleanup pass of your manuscript, the AI build, and automated QA of every lesson, quiz and exercise, so that a student can successfully complete the course and get a certificate.
  11. We will send you a link to a Calendly page to book your Leanpub interviews with Leanpub cofounder Len Epp. Typically we need 3 sessions of about 1 hour each. We do the video editing, and we add the videos to your course for you.
  12. We then cut marketing clips from your interview videos — short, punchy segments for YouTube and social media, ready to post to promote your book and your course.
  13. We also give you a 1-month Shelf Spot, which puts your book on the Leanpub homepage for 30 days and features it in one weekly newsletter (sent to over 90,000 people) and one monthly newsletter (sent to over 130,000 people).

As you can see, all GlobalAuthor packages deliver a ton of value!

No risk

100% Money Back Guarantee

If you're not happy with the results, or if your book is not a good fit for the service, we'll fully refund your money.

Yes, our 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee applies here, just like it does with all Leanpub purchases!

You can only find out how good the service is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so! So, there's no reason not to try the service, is there?

Consider a membership upgrade

Max and Ultra Author members pay less on every tier:

  • GlobalAuthor Pro: $3299 instead of $3499, a saving of $200.
  • GlobalAuthor Max: $4799 instead of $4999, a saving of $200.
  • GlobalAuthor Ultra: $8299 instead of $8499, a saving of $200.

See the author memberships.

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Take Your Book Global

Choose your tier

GlobalAuthor Pro$3499

Includes translating your book into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages — Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish — with TranslateAI, where every page is checked for gremlins. Also includes creating a course with CourseAI, Publish on Amazon for your English book, and a 1-month Shelf Spot.

GlobalAuthor Max$4999

Upgrades you to CourseAI Pro, with up to 3 hours of video interviews with Len Epp. We also take TranslateAI to all 31 languages — every page checked for gremlins — and add IndexAI and AccessibilityAI, also translated into all 31 languages. We also make marketing clips from your interview videos.

GlobalAuthor Ultra$8499

Our white-glove flagship: everything in Max, plus an AI-narrated audiobook of your English edition with AudiobookAI, reviewed by Leanpub. We also publish 14 of your 31 translations on Amazon (39 editions in total), and create custom cover pages for all 31 translations.

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Frequently asked questions

FAQs

Questions?

If you have questions which are not covered here or you just want to learn if GlobalAuthor is a good fit for you, please book a Zoom call on our Calendly page to discuss how GlobalAuthor would fit with one or more of your books!

What Types of Books Can Use GlobalAuthor?

GlobalAuthor works with books which are in Markua or Leanpub Flavoured Markdown (in any writing mode).

If your book is in Leanpub Flavoured Markdown or Markua 0.10, we will convert it to Markua 0.31 as part of the service.

The reason why we do this is that by default we add an index to your book, and Markua 0.31 is the only dialect of Markdown which supports index entries.

Markua 0.31 is the most powerful and flexible dialect of Markdown, and it is the best way to write books on Leanpub.

If your book is in Word, EPUB or PDF, you will need to convert it to Markua first. We can give you a custom quote on this if you need help with the conversion. The best thing to do if this describes your situation is to book a Zoom call on our Calendly page to discuss how GlobalAuthor would fit with one or more of your books!

What's IndexAI? How does it work?

IndexAI is our AI service where we use AI to create the index for your book. (If you're under 25 years old: printed books typically have an index at the back of book, which lists all the important topics in the book, and the page numbers where they can be found. You can think of it as a bunch of links you can't click on.) Having an index is a sign of a professional-quality book, and it makes your book more useful to readers.

After we create and review the index, you can optionally review it and request or make changes, before we proceed. (The way indexes are created is that index entries are added inline in your manuscript, per the Markua spec.)

Since we create the index first, the index will be in your Amazon book, and translated in all your Leanpub translations.

IndexAI and AccessibilityAI are also available separately ($249 each). As part of GlobalAuthor Max and Ultra they're included, translated into every language in your package, and any rare cross-language issues are resolved manually with human QA.

What's AccessibilityAI? How does it work?

AccessibilityAI is our "AI plus human work" accessibility service. First, we use AI to add alt text to all your images for accessibility purposes. Next, we do manual work to ensure that the EPUB we generate is accessible, and that it passes the Ace by DAISY accessibility checker with no reported issues.

Since we do this before any translations, the alt text is also translated in all your translations.

AccessibilityAI is also available on its own for $249 (the fully-automated AI alt text, without the manual EPUB QA). As part of GlobalAuthor Max and Ultra, it includes the manual QA, and the alt text is translated into every language in your package.

Does GlobalAuthor include an audiobook?

Yes, with GlobalAuthor Ultra. It includes AudiobookAI: an AI-narrated audiobook of your English edition, with a professional narrator voice you choose, smart spoken treatment of your code samples, figures and tables, a synced transcript, and a free sample on your book's page. Leanpub reviews the narration — every chapter's opening and close, every passage the narrator flagged, every term in your pronunciation guide, and anything you flag — and fixes anything that went wrong.

We create the audiobook after the IndexAI and AccessibilityAI steps, because the narrator reads your figures from their alt text.

The audiobook is of your English edition only. AudiobookAI narrates English-language books for now, so your translations don't get audiobooks yet.

Everyone who owns your book gets the audiobook in their Leanpub library — a Listen button on the web and in the Leanpub iPhone app, plus an MP3 download — and new buyers get it with the book. It is not distributed to Audible, which does not accept AI narration.

GlobalAuthor Pro and Max do not include an audiobook. If you want one, add AudiobookAI for your book whenever you like — $999, with Leanpub's review pass included.

How Long Does It Take?

The GlobalAuthor service typically takes about 3 weeks to complete. The time varies based on how many other authors are in the queue, etc.

We will keep you updated on our progress throughout the process, and we will either deliver the finished product or give you a progress update within three weeks. We will also be in communication throughout the process via email, and we can have review meetings over Zoom as needed, if you wish.

What Languages Does GlobalAuthor Translate Into?

When you purchase GlobalAuthor Pro, we translate your book into the 12 core GlobalAuthor languages:

  1. Chinese (Simplified)
  2. Chinese (Traditional)
  3. Dutch
  4. French
  5. German
  6. Italian
  7. Japanese
  8. Korean
  9. Polish
  10. Portuguese (Brazilian)
  11. Spanish
  12. Turkish

When you purchase GlobalAuthor Max or Ultra, we translate your book into all 31 languages supported by TranslateAI:

  1. Arabic
  2. Bosnian
  3. Chinese (Simplified)
  4. Chinese (Traditional)
  5. Croatian
  6. Czech
  7. Danish
  8. Dutch
  9. French
  10. German
  11. Greek
  12. Hebrew
  13. Hindi
  14. Hungarian
  15. Indonesian
  16. Italian
  17. Japanese
  18. Korean
  19. Norwegian (Bokmål)
  20. Polish
  21. Portuguese (Brazilian)
  22. Portuguese (European)
  23. Punjabi
  24. Romanian
  25. Serbian (Latin)
  26. Spanish
  27. Swedish
  28. Thai
  29. Turkish
  30. Ukrainian
  31. Vietnamese

Each of these translations is a separate Leanpub book with its own automatically-created landing page in the translated language. Each translation is published in PDF and EPUB on Leanpub!

What Does Leanpub Publish on Amazon with GlobalAuthor Pro or Max?

With GlobalAuthor Pro and Max, we publish your English-language book on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions. We do NOT publish any translations on Amazon. That's what GlobalAuthor Ultra provides.

What Does Leanpub Publish on Amazon with GlobalAuthor Ultra?

With GlobalAuthor Ultra, we publish your English-language book and 14 of your 31 translations on Amazon:

  1. English (your original book) - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  2. Danish - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  3. Dutch - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  4. French - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  5. German - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  6. Hebrew - paperback only
  7. Italian - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  8. Japanese - paperback only
  9. Norwegian (Bokmål) - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  10. Polish - paperback and hardcover only
  11. Portuguese (Brazilian) - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  12. Portuguese (European) - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  13. Spanish - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  14. Swedish - Kindle, paperback and hardcover
  15. Ukrainian - paperback and hardcover only

That's 39 editions of your book published across 15 languages.

Why Aren't All 31 Languages Published on Amazon with GlobalAuthor Ultra?

Not all translations are published on Amazon because Amazon KDP does not support all languages in all formats. Many of the languages we support are not supported by Amazon KDP at all.
If a language is not listed, it is for one of the following three reasons:
  1. Amazon KDP does not support it at all. When a language and format combination is missing, this is the reason in most cases.
  2. Somewhat bizarrely (since Amazon Kindle works with EPUB), the only supported format for the Kindle EPUB is Microsoft Word. Now, Leanpub only outputs EPUB and PDF formats. The last time we checked, this was the case for Arabic, Hindi and Traditional Chinese, so we do not support Kindle ebooks for those languages on Amazon at this time. (We also don't support paperback or hardcover for Arabic, Hindi and Traditional Chinese on Amazon at this time either, since the last time we checked, they did not support that language and format combination.)
  3. Even if Amazon KDP officially supports the language and format combination, we have had difficulty successfully using it with KDP. (This has been our experience with Japanese in Kindle ebook format, so we only support paperback for Japanese on Amazon at this time.)
If you want to learn more about Amazon KDP's language support, they have a helpful Book Supported Languages page which lists the language and format combinations they officially support. (Also, the Microsoft Word-only restriction was not listed for Hindi on that page, but the last time we tried to upload a Hindi EPUB file for publishing on Kindle, we got an error message telling us to upload Microsoft Word only. So, we're not supporting Hindi ebooks currently, and since ebook was the only supported format listed for Hindi on that page last time we looked, we're not supporting Hindi on Amazon at this time.)
You own all the AI translations we produce, so if you wish to try converting some translations (such as Arabic, Traditional Chinese or Hindi) to Microsoft Word and then publishing them on Amazon yourself, you are free to do so. However, we do not provide support with this process. Similarly, since we only publish Japanese in paperback, if you want to try publishing the Kindle ebook on Amazon, we will just give you the print-ready PDF paperback file and you can try publishing both the paperback and ebook yourself on Amazon. You don't want to have us publish the Japanese language paperback if you are publishing the ebook, since the formats will not be linked, etc.

Why Did Leanpub Build This?

We built GlobalAuthor because we want to help our authors reach readers around the world, in their own language, on Leanpub and on Amazon.

With GlobalAuthor Max, we help you reach readers on Amazon as well with your English edition — and with GlobalAuthor Ultra, your English edition plus 14 translations.

With all GlobalAuthor packages, Leanpub will translate your book using TranslateAI from English into 31 languages, which combined are read by billions of people.

Just because many people in the world can read English as a second language to some extent doesn't mean they should have to read your book that way.

Furthermore, billions of people cannot read English, even as a second language. If you want to reach some of these people, you need to translate your book into their language. First and foremost, this is a question of accessibility. If readers cannot read your book, it does not matter how good it is.

If you've finished your book and want to make it available to a global audience, the GlobalAuthor service is the next step to take.

Do I Earn The Normal Royalties on GlobalAuthor Translations?

Yes. You earn the normal Leanpub royalties on all purchases of GlobalAuthor translations (80% on purchases that are $7.99 and up; 80% minus 50 cents on purchases below $7.99), just like if you purchased those translations individually with TranslateAI. This is the same royalty rate that authors earn from any other Leanpub book.

We add a TranslateAI coauthor to the translations to indicate that this was an AI translation, but this coauthor does not earn any royalties. After all, what would an AI spend the money on?

Can I Sell My GlobalAuthor Translations Anywhere?

Yes. You own your translations, both those purchased individually with TranslateAI, or as part of a GlobalAuthor bundle.

You can sell your translations anywhere that allows AI translations to be sold as ebooks or print books. (This currently includes Amazon KDP, but we obviously don't control Amazon's policies about AI translations.)

You do not need to give Leanpub any of your money from sales on other platforms, either of your translation or your original book. You own your work, and you own your AI translations too.

What Are The Translations?

The translations are completely separate Leanpub books, which will be created in Source Editor mode. You can edit them, etc. These are your books.

What is Leanpub's Overall AI Strategy for Translation?

Our strong belief is that trying to compete with AI giants such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, etc. on pure translation quality is something that may result in better performance in the short term, but in the long term the correct strategy is to just build the best tooling around the LLM, and drop in the best-performing model at any given time.

The AI giants are investing billions of dollars on their new models, so our bet is the best general-purpose AI models will outperform single-purpose models on translation. So, we are focused on building the best tooling around the LLM itself, and we are committed to testing and using the best models available at any given moment.

"Commoditize your complements" has been good strategy for the past 23 years, after all!

So, from a strategic perspective, Leanpub's AI services can be viewed as the ultimate "LLM wrapper" publishing startup. Instead, since 2010 we've been working hard to build the best plain-text based publishing workflow. And since AI models work great with plain text, this happens to be very fortunate for us!

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If you have questions which are not covered here or you just want to learn if GlobalAuthor is a good fit for you, please book a Zoom call on our Calendly page to discuss how GlobalAuthor would fit with one or more of your books!

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Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

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Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

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