Summary
- Amazon launched Kindle Translate for automatic translation of ebooks on KDP, available in Spanish, English and German, at no cost to authors.
- Less than 5% of titles on Amazon are in multiple languages; Kindle Translate aims to increase that percentage.
- Amazon limits book uploads to three per day to prevent abuse with AI-generated ebooks.
Amazon has launched a new artificial intelligence called Kindle Translate. With it, authors who use the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) self-publishing platform will be able to translate their works automatically, free of charge.
Initially, the tool will be available to translate from English to Spanish, Spanish to English and German to English. Amazon says the final result will be automatically evaluated to ensure accuracy before publishing. There will also be a “Kindle Translate” badge on ebooks that used the tool.
The company says that less than 5% of the titles on its site are available in multiple languages and that this is likely to improve with Kindle Translate.
For those who write, this must be important even to support themselves. Works available on Kindle Unlimited, for example, earn the author a few cents per page read. Therefore, reaching new audiences can help pay the bills at the end of the month.
AI brings tools (and abuse) to Amazon books
Automatic translation joins AI-powered narrations for Amazon’s Audible platform. Launched in November 2023, the tool has been celebrated by writers using the self-publishing platform, as audiobooks can be a new source of income.
On the other hand, announcers began to worry about the future of their jobs, and listeners questioned the quality of the recordings. Even some authors were uncomfortable, fearing that more personal or autobiographical works would receive narrations without the necessary emotion.
Kindle devices also gained features with the help of language models, such as recapping previous books in a series.
At the same time, Amazon needs to deal with the negative effects of AI. The company had to limit the upload of books to a maximum of three per day, to prevent abuse: people were generating large quantities of ebooks and flooding the store to try to make money without much effort.
With information from The Verge
Source: https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/amazon-libera-ia-para-traduzir-ebooks-de-autores-independentes/
