Managing editor
Assigns the book, sends the links, compares versions and applies the suggestions that were accepted.
Review and approve a translation before it is published
Every book on Tarjum passes through people you choose, and each records a decision under their own name. The reviewer needs no account and no training: they open a link and read the pages as they will print.
Publishing an Arabic edition you can’t read yourself? This is where your Arabic editor or reviewer signs it off. An English edition of an Arabic book works the same way.
قصة البابنسخة المراجعة · اسم الدار
كان المحامي السيد أترسون رجلًا خشن القسمات، لم تضئ وجهه ابتسامة قطّ؛ بارد الحديث ومقتضبه ومتعثره؛ ضنينًا بعاطفته. وكان يأخذ نفسه بالشدة: يشرب الجين إذا اختلى، إماتةً لهواه في الخمور المعتقة؛ ومع ما كان يجد في المسرح من متعة، لم يعبر بابًا من أبوابه منذ عشرين عامًا.١٤
Literally: “Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of rough features, whose face no smile ever lit; cold in talk, curt and halting; sparing of his feelings. And he was hard on himself: he drank gin when he was alone, to mortify his craving for aged wines; and for all the pleasure he found in the theater, he had not passed through one of its doors in twenty years.” The running head reads “Story of the Door” and “Review copy · Publisher’s name”.
Reviewer · Suggested changeلم تطأ قدمه مسرحًا(“He never set foot in a theater.”) Do we keep the original’s image of the door?
Managing editor · ReplyWe keep the door. The image comes back later in the same chapter.
Who does what in publishing
Proofreader
Comments on a paragraph, or suggests another wording for a sentence.
Subject or religious reviewer
Reads on the pages and records a decision under their own name, without signing in to Tarjum.
Author
Sees the book as it will print, and has a say before it goes to the printer.
Rights holder
Approves the final version, and the decision stays on record.
One round of review
You send the linkA private link for each reviewer, carrying your publisher’s logo, which you can revoke whenever you like.
They read and commentA click on a paragraph pins a note there, or proposes new wording for the sentence.
You decide what goes inApply a suggestion or turn it down. Tarjum can also offer a wording that answers the note.
The next roundThe reviewer sees only what changed, and does not reread the book.
The decisionApprove, approve with changes, or changes requested, under their name and with the date.
The decision stays on record under the name of the person you chose.
Your team inside the project
Outside reviewers come in through a link. Your team works inside the same platform.
Roles and invitations
Invite whoever you want to each book, and set their role in it.
Every sentence confirmed
Your team confirms each sentence in the review step, and an admin can turn that off for a particular book.
Notes on the sentence
The team discusses a sentence right where it sits.
Version history
Every sentence has its history: who changed it and when, with a way back.
Comparing versions
See what changed between two versions of the book before you approve.
Questions about review
Does the reviewer need an account?
No. They open the link and type their name, which is attached to their comments and their decision.
What does the reviewer see?
Just the book, laid out in pages as it will be printed.
Does review work in both directions?
Yes. The pages take the direction of the book’s language: from the right for Arabic, from the left for English.
Who will approve your book?
Send them one link, and see.