For 48 languages, every one on KDP's list and Russian, which KDP doesn't publish: where an author can sell its ebooks, print books and audiobooks read by a digital voice in 2026, and whether Kindle Translate takes it, as far as the stores' own pages say. The rows are free to quote.
What the rows show
- Of these 48 languages, KDP sells 36 as Kindle ebooks and in print, 8 only as Kindle ebooks and 3 only in print, and doesn't publish Russian at all.
- 4 have no Kindle ebook: Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish and Russian. Their ebooks sell only in other stores.
- Apple's guidelines list 19 of the 48 as supported and 4 as partly supported (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Tamil), and say nothing of the other 25, among them Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque and Breton.
- Kobo and Google Play take ebooks in every one of them, and PublishDrive distributes them all, though not every store it reaches takes every language.
- A digital voice can read 7 of them into an audiobook: KDP's Virtual Voice reads 4 (English, French, Italian and Spanish) and Google Play's auto-narration 7 (English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).
- Kindle Translate works between English and 5 of them: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Every language
Apple Books is as its formatting guidelines put each language: supported, partly supported, or not listed, where it may still take the book but doesn't say it supports it. Digital voice is KDP's Virtual Voice and Google Play's auto-narration. Kobo, Google Play and PublishDrive take every row, so the CSV has them but the table doesn't. Japanese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian come with conditions, such as stores that sell to readers in some countries only: their language guides say which.
How it was counted
A store counts for a language when its own pages say it takes books in that language: KDP's language list, Apple's formatting guidelines, Kobo's "virtually any language", Google's "all languages" and PublishDrive's "all kinds of languages". B&N Press, Draft2Digital and IngramSpark publish no such list, so they're left out rather than guessed. Where a store then sells to readers can be narrower than what it takes. The answers are the studio's own store tables, the ones its store kits and language checker use, checked on the dates given with the sources below.
Use the data
Every row is in a CSV file, languages.csv: one line a language, with yes or no for each store and program, and supported, partly or not listed for Apple Books. Quote it with this page's address and its checked date.
Publishing in more than one language? Every edition gets a kit for each store that takes it.
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