eBookPartnership eBook Retailer Language Support

Although we can produce eBook files in almost any language, the support for eBooks in languages other than English differs between distribution channels. We have detailed the latest information we have from our distribution and retail partners below.

Please note that this information is relevant to the arrangements we have with the distribution channels and if you are managing your own eBook distribution we recommend you check the languages supported within your retailer agreements.

Amazon

The following languages are accepted:

Afrikaans
Alsatian
Arabic – content must be in Word (doc or docx) formats
Basque
Bokmål Norwegian
Breton
Catalan
Cornish
Corsican
Danish
Dutch/Flemish
Eastern Frisian
English

Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
German
Gujarati
Hindi – content must be in Word (doc or docx) formats
Icelandic
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Luxembourgish
Malayalam – content must be in Word (doc or docx) formats

Manx
Marathi – content must be in Word (doc or docx) formats
Northern Frisian
Norwegian
Nynorsk Norwegian
Portuguese
Provençal
Romansh
Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil – content must be in Word (doc or docx) formats
Welsh

Apple

Supported languages are listed below :

Brazilian Portuguese
British English
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified) (ePUB 3)
Chinese (Traditional) (ePUB 3)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English

Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese (ePUB 3)
Korean
Malay
(ePUB 3)
Norwegian

Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Slovakian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

At this time, the iBooks Store does not support books written in the following languages or scripts: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Burmese, Farsi (Persian), Hebrew, Khmer, Lao, Malay (Jawi/Arabic script), Sinhala, Tamil, Urdu.