25/11/2025
⚠️ CEATL and European Writers' Council are deeply troubled by the recent announcement from Amazon to launch Kindle Translate, a new AI-powered translation “service”, for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors.
📣 We call on the global book sector, including writers, agents, publishers and readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary translators.
🌎 Let’s protect writers’ and translators’ work, their diverse creativity and their livelihood.
🌱 Let’s protect culture and champion rich human creativity.
📚 Let’s defend ourselves against the logics of mere profit. Let’s keep fostering an industry that nurtures a love of reading of works written, translated, illustrated and published by human beings.
🔗 Read more on our website: https://www.ceatl.eu/books-cannot-be-translated-in-a-click