About

We are SayHi story.

A global reading platform built around the simple idea that great stories don't belong to one language.

Our story

SayHi story began with editors in different time zones sharing books that had never reached one another’s languages. Today, translators and editors across 38 countries work together to bring exceptional fiction to readers everywhere.

A reader beside a rain-lit window
"A book is the closest thing we have to a working time machine."
— Lin Wei, co-founder

What we believe

Translation is authorship.

Every line our translators produce is original work. We pay them like authors — royalties, advances, credits on the cover.

Reading is a private act.

No likes, no counts, no social proof. The text and the reader, alone in a room.

Catalogs should be honest.

If a book isn't for you, we say so. If a translation isn't great, we note it. We don't sell you what we won't read.

38
countries represented
1,248
Translators worldwide
38
Source languages
78
Reader countries

Read across borders.

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