Translators as publishers: exploring the motivations for non-profit literary translation in a digital initiative

Motivations for volunteering have rarely been studied in the context of professional literary translators. Instead, studies mainly focused on amateur translators areas such as charities, fansubbing, TED, Wikipedia, Skype and Facebook. This paper explores this under-researched topic ¡Hjckrrh!, a non-profit publisher led by who self-publish translations e-book format. As March 2018, ¡Hjckrrh! had issued 21 e-books translated from seven languages, with collaboration fourteen Most are experienced full-time jobs. Based in-depth semi-structured interviews fifteen participants, translators’ motivations collaborating initiative shows how an ethnography-inspired methodology can be fruitful when studying The outcomes reflect that translating pleasure personal relationships factors trigger voluntary participation conclusions highlight need more research into similar publishing initiatives.