Thad McIlroy's Future of Publishing blog documents a hands-on experiment: translating Janwei Xun's Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e la nuova architettura della realtà from Italian to English using Claude. He bought a DRM-free EPUB, converted it to .docx, and had Claude translate the full text — an English edition with no translator, editor or publishing deal involved.
Benefits & outcomes
Shows a reader can get instant access to untranslated foreign titles.
Costs a fraction of professional translation.
Puts the rights, quality and business-model questions for translation publishing in very concrete terms.
Publisher / company: The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
Date of mention: 28/04/2025
Source: https://thefutureofpublishing.com/2025/04/book-translation-in-the-ai-era/