Books on translation, interpreting and languages
(more will be added soon; watch this space)
- 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know
- A Practical Guide for Translators (Topics in Translation)
- Conference Interpreting: A Student’s Practice Book
- Diversification in the Language Industry: Success beyond translation
- Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
- How to be a Successful Freelance Translator: Make Translations Work for You
- How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator
- In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation
- In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
- Literary Translation: A Practical Guide
- Marketing Cookbook for Translators: Foolproof recipes for a successful freelance career
- The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
- The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice
- The Prosperous Translator
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature
- The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation
- Thoughts on Translation
- Translation (The New Critical Idiom)
- Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader
- SDL Trados Studio 2015: The Manual
Free e-books
(most of these were found on the Translation Journal website where you can find lots more)
- Translating for Canada, eh?, by Lynne Bowker; (also available in French: Vous traduisez pour le Canada?)
- Guide to Localization Management
- 21 Free Tools & Utilities for Translators
- Getting Started with Gaming Localization
- Guide to Localization of Open Source Software
- Images of Translators in Localization Discourse
- Interpretation Techniques and Exercises
- Open Translation Tools
- Study on the size of the language industry in the EU
- The Guide to Translation and Localization: Preparing Products for the Global Marketplace
- The status of the translation profession in the European Union
- The Translation Studies Reader
- Translation Bureau Benchmarking and Comparative Analysis: Final Report May 15, 2012
- Web Translation as a Genre
- Working with agencies demystified
List: 150 Ebooks gratis para Traductores e Intérpretes
Style guides
- The Economist Style Guide
- The Guardian style guide
- Associated Press stylebook
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Associated Press vs. Chicago Manual of Style
- Microsoft’s Language Style Guides (many languages)
- World Bank Translation Style Guide
- IEEE Computer Society Style Guide
- The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing
