Backlist audit
Review rights status, category fit, sales or review signals, author platform, series potential, image permissions, and available source files.
Backlist Expansion
Turn Strong Backlist Titles Into Market-Ready Foreign Editions
For small and independent publishers, MAQUINE helps identify, prepare, and localize titles with international potential.
Program Structure
A focused route from rights clarity to market-ready materials.
Each campaign path uses the same underlying discipline: authority, scope, editorial production, metadata, approval, delivery, and the right next conversation.
Market prioritization
Identify language and territory opportunities before spending production budget on titles without a clear market argument.
Localization package
Prepare translation, editorial adaptation, metadata, copy, sample pages, and delivery notes for selected titles.
Rights sheet support
Create concise rights sheets and market notes that make partner conversations easier.
Series consistency
Build glossaries, style guides, recurring terminology control, and continuity systems across multiple books.
Production checklist
Clarify files, permissions, cover rights, metadata, approval, and reporting expectations before rollout.
Control Note
Publishing control stays defined.
In a standard localization partnership, the rightsholder remains the publishing decision-maker. Any publishing role, rights license, royalty share, exclusivity, term, territory, format, or reversion condition belongs in a separate written agreement.
Do I transfer my rights to MAQUINE?
Not in a standard localization partnership. The rightsholder keeps publishing control. Any rights license, royalty share, or publishing role must be separately agreed in writing.
Can MAQUINE help if I want to publish the localized edition myself?
Yes. MAQUINE can deliver the localized package while you publish, distribute, price, advertise, and collect royalties through your own channels.
Can compensation include royalties?
Yes. Depending on the project, compensation may be structured as a fixed localization fee, a deferred fee, a royalty share, or a hybrid model.
Does MAQUINE publish every title it localizes?
No. Localization partnerships and MAQUINE-published editions are separate paths. A MAQUINE edition requires a separate written agreement.
Which languages does MAQUINE specialize in?
MAQUINE offers all 20 directed pairs among English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, excluding same-language work. Portuguese editions specify Brazil, Portugal / Europe, or a named African market for editorial review. Every title remains subject to rights, scope and capacity review.
Can MAQUINE help before a book fair?
Yes. MAQUINE can prepare rights sheets, sample translations, pitch copy, catalog entries, market notes, and follow-up materials for rights conversations.
Can MAQUINE work with indie authors?
Yes. Indie authors with clear rights, strong backlists, series potential, proven readership, or category momentum can be a strong fit.
Can MAQUINE work with publishers?
Yes. Small and independent publishers can use MAQUINE to evaluate backlists, prepare foreign edition packages, and build rights materials.
Inquiry
Send enough context for a useful first review.
Share the title or catalog, rights position, source language, target market, and the partnership model you want to explore.
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No Studio account or catalogue entry is needed. We can help prepare your project by email, with the dashboard available for progress updates.
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