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World Publishing Houses · About
World Publishing Houses tracks how books travel across countries, languages, and publishers. We document translation paths, rights availability, and the people — translators, agents, editors — who make that movement happen.
The data is built slowly, on purpose. Every record that enters the catalog has been reviewed by a human editor. We use AI to work at scale, and humans to ensure what we publish is something you can trust.
Editorial principles
Readership
WPH is a professional tool, not a general audience platform. If you work in or around the international book trade — rights, translation, publishing, research — you are the person we build for.
Methodology
Every record in the catalog passes through a five-stage pipeline. The pipeline is designed so that no record reaches the public catalog without human approval — regardless of how it was sourced or structured.
Stage 1
Discovery
Publishers' catalogs, national bibliographies, and literary prizes surface candidate titles.
Stage 2
AI extraction
Structured data — authors, translators, ISBNs, rights status — is extracted from raw sources.
Stage 3
Staging
Extracted records enter a staging environment where conflicts and gaps are flagged automatically.
Stage 4
Human review
An editor resolves conflicts, verifies translator credits, and approves or rejects each record.
Stage 5
Trusted catalog
Approved records join the live catalog, with source provenance and confidence level attached.
We source candidate titles from publishers' catalogs, national bibliographies, prize longlistsand shortlists, and direct submissions from translators and publishers. Not every candidate makes it through. Our staging environment flags records with missing required fields, conflicting identifiers, or implausible translation paths.
When a record is approved, it carries its provenance with it: the source it came from, the date it was first documented, the editor who reviewed it, and any corrections made since. That trail is visible on every record page.
Scope
Knowing what a tool is not is as important as knowing what it is. These are deliberate decisions, not gaps we intend to fill.
Contribute
The catalog improves when the people closest to the books — translators, publishers, librarians, readers — tell us what is wrong or missing. Every contribution is reviewed by an editor.
Translators
Claim your translator profile, correct credits, and add bibliographic context to the editions you worked on.
Claim your profilePublishers
Verify your catalog, add rights contact information, and flag titles you have acquired or sold.
Verify your catalogSource a title
Know of a book that should be in the catalog? Send us a record and an editor will review it within two weeks.
Send a recordEveryone
Use the correction flow on any book or edition page to flag inaccuracies. Every note is read by a human editor.
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