Can I make some money if I don allow JewishGen to use my translation?
Good luck. With rare exceptions, book publishers have been unwilling to invest the money that it takes to publish reprints of yizkor books, either in translation or in their original form. If your town of interest is a large one, or is historically significant to a large number of people, you might be able to convince a publisher to print the book, most likely with some large financial investment of your own. Even in such a case, many publishers feel that the likelihood of reaching profits is slim. If you want to, you may wish to pursue this possibility first, and then come back to us later if you decide not to publish it in book form. Meanwhile, you might wish to donate merely the translation of the Structural Elements (the table of contents, index, names lists, photo captions). If you did eventually publish the entire translated book in print, the Web posting of the Structural Elements could boost your sales. You could ask the Project to post a hyperlink on the translation site to re
