Over the last seven weeks, Castalia House has translated approximately 10 million words from over 100 foreign language works into English. Most of these works have never before been translated into English, including the complete ouvres of major authors like Benito Perez Galdos, Eiji Yoshikawa, Zénaïde Fleuriot, Naoki Sanjugo, and Nomoro Kido. They also include never-before-seen military analyses of historic Japanese battles like Sekigahara, Nagashino, and the Korean Campaign published by the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army, to say nothing of never-before-translated biographies of historic Japanese figures and long-lost Spanish Church histories.
At some point in the next two weeks, Castalia House will launch Castalia Unlimited, which is designed to be a significant improvement on Kindle Unlimited. It is not a store. We will not offer single books for sale there and we are not attempting to compete with Amazon. What we will offer is a steady and relentless supply of high-quality literature from the public domain of every major literary language on Earth, including English, although the widespread availability from free sites like Project Gutenberg is why we will not focus on English originals. And while we had no intention of making it exclusive, due to the new Amazon KDP publishing limits, we anticipate a growing number of books that will be exclusively available at CU.
You can now sign up and register for an account at Castalia Unlimited. All you need to do is provide a username, and email address, and a password, and we’ll send you back an email to confirm your email address. When the site goes live, you’ll be the first to be notified. And while I’m not going to say anything more about it at the moment, I will say to be sure to sign up if you’re a subscriber to Library, History, Libraria, Cathedra, or Chateau… you are not likely to regret it.
Also, be sure to check your spam and your junk folders if the confirmation email hasn’t arrived within five minutes or so. And finally, not only are print editions coming, they are already here.
