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Rates per page for Webtoon Translation?
Autor da sequência: Claire Franklin
Claire Franklin
Claire Franklin
Reino Unido
Local time: 01:05
Coreano para Inglês
Mar 20, 2024

Good morning ProZ members!

I've been requested to translate a Korean webtoon and provide a rate per page of said webtoon. I've never encountered a per-page rate before so I have no idea how much to charge.

I was thinking perhaps:

For a chapter of a comic that is 5 pages long with 9 panels per page, my rate will be a minimum of £20 per page and thus, £100 per chapter. In the case of extra-linguistic circumstances (terminology, research beyond the text, for... See more
Good morning ProZ members!

I've been requested to translate a Korean webtoon and provide a rate per page of said webtoon. I've never encountered a per-page rate before so I have no idea how much to charge.

I was thinking perhaps:

For a chapter of a comic that is 5 pages long with 9 panels per page, my rate will be a minimum of £20 per page and thus, £100 per chapter. In the case of extra-linguistic circumstances (terminology, research beyond the text, formatting etc, a surcharge of 15% will be applied.

Is this too much or too little?

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Sebastian Witte
Sebastian Witte  Identity Verified
Alemanha
Local time: 02:05
Membro (2004)
Inglês para Alemão
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The difference between literary translation and webtoon translation Mar 21, 2024

Hi,

The difference between literary translation, where charging by the page might be an option if you have to because it's considered an industry standard by translation buyers like publishing houses to do so, and webtoon translation is that literary pages are somewhat narrowly definable and defined due to their regular-ish layout, while webtoon pages (compare comic books) can be any amount of words per page.

So that even beyond standard pages (such as the ones defined ... See more
Hi,

The difference between literary translation, where charging by the page might be an option if you have to because it's considered an industry standard by translation buyers like publishing houses to do so, and webtoon translation is that literary pages are somewhat narrowly definable and defined due to their regular-ish layout, while webtoon pages (compare comic books) can be any amount of words per page.

So that even beyond standard pages (such as the ones defined as 1800 characters including spaces) charging by the page might be feasible in literary translation.

Best regards,

[Edited at 2024-03-21 11:48 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 


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