Amazon offers AI translation of self-published Kindle books

Amazon is making it easier for self-published authors to release their eBooks in multiple languages ​​with Kindle Translate, a new AI-powered translation tool It has been launched in beta version on Thursday for a limited number of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors. In its early form, it could translate between English and Spanish and from German to English, at no additional cost to authors.

Authors can select the languages ​​they want their books translated into, set an individual price list for these translations, and preview them before publishing. Amazon states that “all translations are automatically evaluated for accuracy before publishing” and specified that there will be a “Kindle Translate” tag on eBooks that have been translated using the AI ​​tool.

According to Amazon, “less than 5% of the titles” on its site are available in multiple languages, a statistic that Kindle Translate aims to improve. Books translated using the tool will be eligible for KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited. The eBook translation tool arrives just months after Amazon’s audiobook platform, Audible, debuts Multilingual AI narration tool.