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Update on international Kindle versions of REWORK 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.) 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 English (UK): Vermilion 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. Assigning Tasks in Highrise Highrise Tasks are a great way to keep track of what's on your plate. You can also assign tasks to other people on your team. To do that, select a user’s name from the “Who’s responsible” pulldown menu. That person will now be assigned that task. They will also get an email letting them know the task was assigned to them. To see the tasks you’ve assigned other people, click on the Tasks tab then click on the “Assigned” link. You’ll then see a list of all the open tasks you’ve assigned other people. (Note: If someone checked off the task and marked it done, you won’t see it.) Learn more about Tasks.