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Rates for academic text translation ?
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Sep 23, 2003

i have been asked to quote a price for a book of roughly 300 pages - academic text with some research involved. we usually charge about 36 euro per page. any ideas on quoting for this type of job?
 
Henry Hinds
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Quote by the word... Sep 24, 2003

...not by the page. One man's page can be another man's postage stamp and yet another's Bible.

So figure out the words; if the pages are fairly uniform you can take an average, multiply by pages and there's the number. You don't actually count by the word.

But you do charge by the word.
 
Marc P (X)
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Quoting Sep 24, 2003

dco,

I agree with Henry in as much as the unit of volume needs to be clarified with the customer, if you are going to quote by volume. The "page" may well be1,800 characters or whatever it is the publishing industry uses. If your customer will only accept a quote in this form, make sure the terms are clear - whether the figure includes spaces, etc.

Personally, I would insist on seeing a copy of the text first, and would then quote a fixed price for the whole job.
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dco,

I agree with Henry in as much as the unit of volume needs to be clarified with the customer, if you are going to quote by volume. The "page" may well be1,800 characters or whatever it is the publishing industry uses. If your customer will only accept a quote in this form, make sure the terms are clear - whether the figure includes spaces, etc.

Personally, I would insist on seeing a copy of the text first, and would then quote a fixed price for the whole job.

What do you mean by "with some research involved"?

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