Amazon’s New AI Translation Feature – Amazon Offers AI Translation For 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 translation tool that launched in beta on Thursday to a limited number of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors.

At no extra cost to authors, it can translate between English and Spanish and from German to English.

As an author, you can select the languages you want your books translated to, set individual list prices for those translations, and preview them before publication.

Amazon states that “all translations are automatically evaluated for accuracy before publication” and that there will be a “Kindle Translate” label on ebooks translated with the AI tool.

“Less than 5% of titles” on its site are available in multiple languages, a statistic Kindle Translate aims to improve according to Amazon.

Books translated with the tool will be eligible for KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited. The ebook translation tool arrives a few months after Amazon’s audiobook platform, Audible, began offering a multi-lingual AI narration tool.