On 12/05/2016 19:02, Joel Madero wrote: > would dedicate hundreds of hours (or thousands) for such a small amount of > money.
If the cited amount was one thousand dollars, United States currency, then one is looking at the going rate on fiver for that size book. If the quoted amount was ten thousand dollars, United States currency, then one is looking at the low end of professional translation, for English (US) and Portuguese (Brazil) for a document of that size. > In particular, if you're thinking of having it translated into multiple languages Translation costs depend upon the language pair, the "translation knowledge" of the translator, and subject matter. For some language pairs, it is significantly cheaper to go through one or two other languages. In other words, instead of going from language x directly into language y, it is cheaper to go from language x to language z, and from language z to language w, and from language w to language y. Back in the sixties, the International Esperanto Association produced a White Paper demonstrating that it was always cheaper to translate into Esperanto, and then into the target language, than from original language into the target language. (There were some flaws in it, I don[t remember if Dwayne Bailey created the document, or merely sent it to me, but he has charts showing that translating material into English, greatly increases the number of languages that the content is translated into. > I still think it'd be an uphill battle to get funding. The virtue of crowdfunding is that enables one to easily identify potential patrons. The vice of crowdfunding is that success/failure is correlated on the patrons you identified, before you started the campaign. (This is an over simplification, but that is the basis of the models that predict success/failure of crowdfunding projects.) jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted