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Category Archives: The Sustainable Translator
An Italian literary translator with 22 years of experience leaves the profession …
… and responds to a job offer from a publisher who doesn’t know he no longer works as a translator. Dear […], Yes, youâve reached me at the correct address. Thank you for the offer of a translation project. Reluctantly, … Continue reading
Massimo Coppola’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Massimo Coppola’s “big explanation” for what happened at ISBN Edizioni is too little, too late … and too typical. In the end, Massimo Coppola, the publisher of the embattled (and, apparently, now officially defunct) Italian independent publisher, ISBN Edizioni, rolled … Continue reading
The Copyright Rustling Petition: What’s Your Excuse?
In the four weeks since No Peanuts! launched its campaign to raise awareness about the alarming number of translators who lose their copyrights to English-language translation publishers, those who refuse to sign the Copyright Rustling petition or support the campaign … Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Translation (Or, Why does copyright matter?)
… the publisher will see you now. In the week or so since No Peanuts! posted information about the new report, Copyright âRustlingâ in English-Language Translation: How Translators Keep (and Lose) Rights to Their WorkâData from Translations Published in 2014, … Continue reading
Copyright âRustlingâ in English-Language Translation: How Translators Keep (and Lose) Rights to Their Work
A newly released report, Copyright âRustlingâ in English-Language Translation: How Translators Keep (and Lose) Rights to Their WorkâData from Translations Published in 2014, reveals that translators in commercial English-language publishing lose copyright to their work more than one-third of the … Continue reading
Those Who Coerce & Those Who Get Right with Translators
******************************************** Add your name to the “Put A Stop To Copyright Rustling!” petition! ******************************************** The New York publisher, Europa Editions, founded in 2005 by Sandro Ferri and Sandra Ozzola Ferri (an Italian married couple who also own the Rome-based press, Edizioni … Continue reading
Translators Without Borders: Pro Bono … or Cui Bono?
Is Translators Without Borders a force for good … or just another front for the translation industry’s corporate sausage-makers?  “We have the Silvio Berlusconi of translation and a host of others representing companies with significant interests in the commoditization and sometimes … Continue reading
Translation Today: New Opportunities for Bondage and Poverty
It’s not true that the translation profession is in trouble! Kevin Lossner describes the new employment opportunities available to today’s translators: chattel labor, indentured servitude, linguistic sausage production, slavelance, cog in the profit gears, bulk-market bog slopper, digital sharecropper. Essential reading for those floundering … Continue reading
Translation and Identity/Translation As Identity – Kenneth Kronenberg
:  we are not pieceworkers … we are a community of  intellectuals capable of coming together to act in our own interests  — Kenneth Kronenberg  : No Peanutsistas will recall Kenneth Kronenberg’s essay, “Translation in a Corporate … Continue reading
Bravo! AITI’s New Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
At its General Assembly on April 13, 2013, the Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters (AITI) adopted a new Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. For No Peanutsistas, portions of two of the new Codeâs twenty-three articles are cause for … Continue reading
