It’s true, REWORK won’t be out in the US until March 9, 2010, but you’ll also be able to get translated versions in a variety of other languages and countries. The release dates may be later than the US version, but eventually you’ll find REWORK from the following publishers in the following languages/countries:
- Indonesian (Publisher: PT Gramedia Pustak)
- China (Publisher: China Citic Press)
- Dutch (Publisher: Uitgeverij Mouria)
- UK (Publisher: Vermilion)
- Germany (Publisher: Verlagsgruppe Random House)
- Japan (Publisher: Hayakawa Shobo)
- Portuguese/Brazil (Publisher: GMT Editores Sextante)
- Spanish (Publisher: Ediciones Urano S.A.)
We thank all the publishers above for trusting in REWORK.
Pre-orders
If you want to get in early, you can pre-order the US version from the following booksellers:
Original art preview
REWORK will also contain 50 original illustrations from one of our favorite illustrators. Can you guess who it is? We’ll reveal the artist’s name, as well as more illustrations, as we get closer to publication date. Here’s a preview:


Jason Fried wrote this on Dec 02 2009 There are 13 comments.
Ryan Heath 02 Dec 09
I’m going with Mike Rohde, based on his other stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/
Either way, looking forward to the book!
Sergey Gotsulyak 02 Dec 09
Hey, what’s about Russian? There are many followers of your Getting Real philosophy.
Jeppe S 02 Dec 09
It’s def Mike Rohde.
Aldo Monteiro 02 Dec 09
Thats sweet. I’ll get to read it in portuguese! Thx a lot.
Blue Sail Creative 02 Dec 09
Wow yea this book looks sweet. Just preordered it on the Kindle.
Congrats and I cant wait….
Joël Cox 02 Dec 09
Cool so many publishers are willing to translate this book. However, I’ll be ordering the original instead of the Dutch translation.
Those illustrations gonna look sweet!
Theo Mills 02 Dec 09
DHH tweeted that the illustrator is Mike Rohdes a couple of weeks ago:
http://twitter.com/dhh/status/5658718375
Doh!
Scott 02 Dec 09
Looking forward to the book!
Bryan Sebastian 02 Dec 09
If you follow Mike Rhodes on twitter, he may have “let the cat out of the bag” :) Mike does amazing work, which gives me another reason to really look forward to the release of REWORK .
JF 02 Dec 09
Ok, that was too easy.
Blue Sail Creative 02 Dec 09
Yea wow, that art work is sick…great job
Mike Rohde 03 Dec 09
I was surprised how quickly my illustration work was figured out! Thanks to everyone who recognized it, you guys made my day.
Can’t wait until the book is published. I’m very excited for everyone to see how the written text and illustrations work together to make REWORK a fun, interesting book to read.
Paul 04 Dec 09
I hope that one day you publish your book in Poland. Looking forward… (Helion.pl is the biggest publisher – http://helion.pl/info/wydawnictwo-e.htm).
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