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🧵 1 ATLF press release
Dear Members, For the past few weeks, dozens of translators who regularly work with Harlequin (HarperCollins France) have been receiving phone calls informing them of the end of their collaboration with the publishing house. Their current contracts will be their last. Collection by collection, Harlequin is abandoning translation: an external service provider, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will handle running the texts through "machine translation" software and directly recruit freelance proofreaders to post-edit the machine-generated French output. The stated objective is to increase profitability by cutting down on working time.
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Some people requested more context/sources, so here there are (French only, sorry!)

www.livreshebdo.fr/article/harl...

actualitte.com/article/1281...
Harlequin s'ouvre à la traduction automatique par IA, des traducteurs dénoncent un « plan social » - Livres Hebdo
Harlequin a contacté en novembre les traductrices et traducteurs de la collection « Azur » pour leur annoncer la fin de leur collaboration, rapportent l'Association des traducteurs littéraires de Fran...
www.livreshebdo.fr
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
spiderryder.bsky.social
This thread has some analysis, as well as some speculation about what article the assignment may have been about, as well as the idea that the student may have written the essay based off the abstract alone: www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From the Professors community on Reddit: "OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay"
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November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM