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Contact Enquiry

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Submitted by yami books | Status - Answered | Created - 2024-11-08 16:38

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Enquiry

Nice to meet you.
Please excuse my unfamiliar English using a translation tool.
I am “Yami Books”, the author of a coterie magazine called “Shoujiki Iu to, | To Be Honest”.
I was wondering why I was getting English responses to a questionnaire about my work when I have not released an English version of it, but I found that the data translated into English by you had been reprinted without permission.
I found your website with the credits and am contacting you.

In the meantime, I will tell you the main issue.
If you went to the trouble of translating my work, would you be willing to register the English version of my work with a service called DLsite?

DLsite is a digital comic store run by a Japanese company.
I register and sell my works there.
DLsite also offers a translation service called “Translators Unite,” through which translated works are sold on DLsite as additional language versions.

When the language version is sold, the proceeds are divided between the original creator and the translator.
Your translation of “Shoujiki Iu to, | To Be Honest” sells for 770 yen on DLsite, and after deducting commissions, each sale generates 431 yen.
And since I set my share to 80% for the translator, if you register an English translated version of my work on DLsite, the translator earns 344 yen for every one sold. (I, the original author, make 86 yen per sale).

Maybe you guys belong to a community that has a reason to publish for free, but if you are interested in this win-win structure, please check it out.

Response

Cipher-kun

Editor

2024-11-10 11:31

Hello,

Sorry if the situation has caused you distress. It didn't occur to us that readers would leave feedback. Especially as we didn't translate those pages. We did however leave all the pages in as it would be disrespectful to take out any author accreditation from the work.

We're aware of the DLSite "Translators Unite" program. Unfortunately we're not driven by profit and the fan translations we do are done to share the shota works we enjoy with the English community. Doing it for profit changes it from a hobby to a side job which is not the way we wish to enjoy this work we do.

With that being said, we would have no qualms with you selling our version yourself, and taking 100% of the revenue for it. In fact we'd encourage it, and you are more than welcome to remove our credits when doing so.

Please let us know if you have anything further to say. The contact us system doesn't support further replies so you'll need to make a new submission to do so.