Place without footnotes everywhere
The edition protects culturally specific texture while deciding where context belongs in the sentence, front matter, notes, or supporting rights materials.
Portuguese to English book localization
Carry a Portuguese-language book into English with its place, pace, and authority intact.
Maquine defines the English market, builds a working voice record, and prepares the localized manuscript and optional publication assets as one controlled edition system.
Edition definition
Language pair is the beginning of scope, not the whole scope.
This route is built for portuguese-language authors, brazilian and portuguese publishers, agents, and estates seeking an english edition or a stronger english rights package. The automatic calculator also requires a target-market variant, genre, source-word count, and material-complexity answers before it can issue an exact eligible-project price.
Edition corridor
Portuguese to English
Available variants
International English / United States / United Kingdom
Eligible automatic range
USD 0.08-0.12 per approved source word
The exact rate is calculated from the approved pair, market, genre, length, and scope. Complex layouts, specialist content, verse, extensive notes, or other material risks move to human review before a price is locked.
Editorial control
Three decisions that materially shape this edition.
These are reviewed as connected editorial choices. A clean sentence is not enough if the register, target reader, and market-facing edition point in different directions.
Narrative movement
Long sentences, dialogue markers, tense, repetition, and rhetorical cadence are edited for English readability without standardizing away the author's design.
Rights-facing English
Synopsis, author biography, hook, sample description, and market note can be aligned with the manuscript for publishers evaluating the work in English.
Base delivery
The localized manuscript arrives with its editorial record.
US, UK, or international English title strategy, jacket copy, retailer description, categories, keywords, author positioning, and rights-sheet support. Publication packages are optional and remain visibly separate from the base localization.
- Human-led manuscript localization for the contracted language and target market
- Bilingual editorial revision and target-language reading pass
- Project terminology and voice record
- Document-level linguistic and consistency QA
- Consolidated rightsholder review round
- Final clean manuscript, approval log, and delivery manifest
Optional publication system
Add market-facing assets only where the edition needs them.
The three tiers are cumulative, fixed-price additions to the base localization. No tier is preselected.
Optional tier
Metadata Essentials
A complete target-market identity for retailer, catalog, and distributor systems.
+ $495.00
Optional tier
Publication-Ready Edition
Everything in Metadata Essentials plus a finished digital and print interior.
+ $1,295.00
Optional tier
Market Launch
Everything in Publication-Ready Edition plus a guided retailer and launch handoff.
+ $2,195.00
Rights boundary
The target edition is defined without taking control away from the rightsholder.
English-language publication and representation are not included in the localization fee. Either path requires a separate agreement and clearly defined territories and formats.
Authority first
The submitting party confirms authority for English-language production in the selected territory and format.
Versioned scope
The accepted words, rate, market, package, payment split, and rights statement become immutable. Material changes use a separately accepted change order.
Automatic declared-scope quote
Price the edition before sharing the manuscript.
Calculate the exact eligible-project price, choose one optional publication tier, and lock the proposal after email verification. The private manuscript enters only after agreement and deposit.