A lot of people have been asking us why there isn't an international Kindle version of REWORK. (The REWORK Kindle US Edition is available for $9.99 at Amazon. You can also get it for the Nook at Barnes & Noble.)
Unfortunately, there's no simple answer to that. The whole international e-book thing is still a bit of a Wild West environment. While Crown Publishing puts the book out here in the US, the foreign language rights for the book have been sold to different local publishers. It's up to each of these individual foreign publishers as to if/when the book comes out on Kindle.
Here’s what our translation chief at Crown Publishing had to say on the whole international Kindle sales issue:
The UK publisher, Vermilion has e-book rights in UK & Commonwealth exclusively (in the rest of the World non-exclusively). I’m sure they are planning an e-version of REWORK. I’m copying our contact at Vermilion so she can give us more information about their e-book.There aren’t Kindle editions available in every country, some have different devices or none available at all yet. Also, some of our foreign deals do not grant e-book rights to the publishers as they aren’t equipped yet to exploit these rights (like Indonesia for instance).
In general though, these questions by consumers about Kindle availability would be most easily handled if the authors directed people to the publishers in the countries where the book has already sold. They should list these publishers on their website so that people can go directly to the source.
So here's a list of these foreign publishers so anyone who is interested can contact them directly:
- Bahasa (Indonesia): P.T. Gramedia Pustaka
- Chinese (China): China Critic Press
- Dutch: Uitgeverij Mouria (Update: They will publish Rework in e-book and hardcover in August. The e-book will not be a Kindle edition however, but an epub-file, which can be used with all e-readers except the Kindle.)
- English (UK): Vermilion (Update: Rework will be available as an e-book on March 18 through various UK online retailers: Amazon, Waterstones and WH Smiths.)
- French Canada: Editions Transcontinental
- German: Verlagsgruppe Random
- Italian: ETAS / RCS Libri
- Japanese: Hayakawa Shobo
- Polish: Spoleczny Instytut W
- Portuguese (Brazil): GMT Editores
- Spanish: Ediciones Urano S.A.
We'll keep working to find out more specific information on future release plans for international editions. Thanks for your patience and understanding. And if you contact a foreign publisher and find out relevant information, please let us know by sending an email to rework[at]37signals[dot]com. Thank you.
