Synopsis
Verlag
Synopsis: New Publishing House
Founded in 2025, in Berlin/Germany
Synopsis is a new publishing house focused on academic research and translations. Our main goal is to help scholars—especially those in China—get their work translated and published so it can be read by scholars in the Western hemisphere. We want to make sure the best ideas aren’t stuck behind language barriers.
Why we started Synopsis
We founded Synopsis because we are frustrated with how the “big” publishing houses treat authors. Many established publishers have become a monopoly. They often:
- Ask authors to pay huge fees (Druckkostenzuschuss) to cover all the costs.
- Give nothing back in terms of design or editing, often forcing authors to take care of everything themselves.
- Keep most of the profits, giving authors only a tiny percentage of sales.
We want to offer a real alternative. We charge much less than the big houses for printing books and offer better conditions for our authors.
At Synopsis, we actually do the work of professional copyediting and design ourselves, ensuring your book looks and reads perfectly in a digital format.
We also offer to publish your work digitally (eBook) in addition to the traditional printed version.
Translations
Many authors today use AI to translate their work into English or German. The problem is that AI-translated text often sounds “fake” or unnatural; even the suspicion of being generated by AI, makes the readers think less of the text.
Our team is Chinese, German, and English. We don’t just run your text through a program; we manually check and polish AI translations. We fix the style and content errors to make sure your work sounds like it was written by a person.
What we offer:
Whether you are a young scholar looking to publish your first research (your dissertation) or an established professor with a book already out in China, we can help.
- New Research: We publish high-quality original work.
- Conference Proceedings: Looking for an easy way to publish conference proceedings or a collection of essays, making sure that the conference has “visible results” that count towards a successful completion of a project? Message us, we can help!
- Translations: We offer Translations of your Work (Chinese, English, German)
- Republishing: We can help you get the rights to translate and republish articles or books.
- Funding: Since we are a officially founded publishing house, you can usually use university funding to pay for the publication, and it counts toward your academic record.
- Reviews/Visibility: Other than most publishers, we will also help you after your work has been printed, actively helping you to send review-copies to potential reviewers, and distributing information about the publication online, soliciting reviewers and potentially helping with the book sales.
If you want to publish your work with Synopsis, please send us a message or come talk to us in person.
Contact
E-mail: info@synopsisverlag.de
Address: Synopsis-Verlag, 12161 Berlin