Until now, most fan sites on the net have been in just one language: English.
If non English readers of internationally best-selling series such as Michelle Paver’s CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS wanted to access the official site they had to learn English first – or set up their own site in their native language. However, today, all that has changed.
Michelle Paver’s fan site – THE CLAN – has become the world’s first trans-lingual community. Utilising state-of-the-art background translation, THE CLAN is now simultaneously available in over 50 languages in real time.
Michelle Paver’s agent, Redhammer’s Peter Cox says of this exciting development for THE CLAN:
“If you’re in Beijing the entire fan site appears in Mandarin. If you’re a fan in Helsinki, it’s 100% Finnish. Both the Chinese fan and the Finnish fan can communicate with each other in real time! We are bringing readers together for the first time who previously couldn’t communicate with each other. Now, they can!”
By clever design and programming, all 50 languages can speak to each other simultaneously and seamlessly. Multi-lingual means one language (usually English) to many. THE CLAN is many-to-many. And with nearly a million posts from fans all around the world, THE CLAN is one of the biggest reader fan sites on the net.
“This is the future of author fan sites”, says Peter Cox. “It’s also the future of the net itself. I believe most sites will soon be offering what we’re doing. The net is by definition international and inclusive.”
Michelle Pavers books have sold over four million copies in 48 languages worldwide.
Her new novel, DARK MATTER, for adult readers will be published on 21 October 2010.
