Amazon begins pre-orders for authorized Steve Jobs biography
Online retailer Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for "iSteve: The Book of Jobs," the authorized biography of Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, with a tentative March 2012 release date.
Publishing house Simon & Schuster formally announced in April that former Time executive Walter Isaacson was working on an authorized biography of Jobs due out in early 2012. Rumors of the book first emerged last February.
Amazon is charging $19.80, or 34 percent off the list price, for the hardcover edition of the book and $14.99 for the Kindle edition with a pre-order price guarantee. The book's release date is currently listed as March 6, 2012. Apple is also offering $14.99 pre-orders for the book on iBooks.
Isaacson has conducted "three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews" with Jobs, as well as "extensive interviews" with family members, colleagues and competitors, the book's description notes, adding that "iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation."
Jobs is among impressive company as a subject for Isaacson, who has written best-selling biographies on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. "This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators," Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp said in April. "Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius."
The book's product page also features a cover image, though the current image is most likely a placeholder.
Jobs has been the subject of numerous biographies in the past, but Isaacson's work is the first to gain approval from the executive, who is guarded about his private life. In 2005, the release of an unauthorized biography entitled "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" prompted Apple to remove all titles by the publisher from the company's retail stores. The resulting publicity led to a doubling of the book's initial press run.
Publishing house Simon & Schuster formally announced in April that former Time executive Walter Isaacson was working on an authorized biography of Jobs due out in early 2012. Rumors of the book first emerged last February.
Amazon is charging $19.80, or 34 percent off the list price, for the hardcover edition of the book and $14.99 for the Kindle edition with a pre-order price guarantee. The book's release date is currently listed as March 6, 2012. Apple is also offering $14.99 pre-orders for the book on iBooks.
Isaacson has conducted "three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews" with Jobs, as well as "extensive interviews" with family members, colleagues and competitors, the book's description notes, adding that "iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation."
Jobs is among impressive company as a subject for Isaacson, who has written best-selling biographies on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. "This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators," Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp said in April. "Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius."
The book's product page also features a cover image, though the current image is most likely a placeholder.
Jobs has been the subject of numerous biographies in the past, but Isaacson's work is the first to gain approval from the executive, who is guarded about his private life. In 2005, the release of an unauthorized biography entitled "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" prompted Apple to remove all titles by the publisher from the company's retail stores. The resulting publicity led to a doubling of the book's initial press run.
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I like it.
The book will never come out. The world ends in 2012 according to the Aztec calendar!
Dude where were you on the rapture on the 21st?
The book will never come out. The world ends in 2012 according to the Aztec calendar!
Considering the end date is after the books release, plus it's the Mayan calendar, not the Aztec.
This is a book I will read, even though I don't like reading at all.
Already pre-ordered. Loved Isaacson's biography of Einstein, and I'm sure this will rank right up there with it.
Considering, that Isaacson didn't have so much opportunities to interview B.Franklin or A. Einstein, I expect it to be even more accurate and in depth. Looking forward to the release anyway. But I really hope the iBookstore is available in Switzerland until the release day because it just does'n feel right to read Steves biography in the Kindle App.
In 2005, the release of an unauthorized biography entitled "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" prompted Apple to remove all titles by the publisher from the company's retail stores. The resulting publicity led to a doubling of the book's initial press run.
Why would I preorder an iBook, it's not like they will run out.
Lock in the price? Are we perhaps expecting that the pre-order price will increase between now and the actual date?
Considering the end date is after the books release, plus it's the Mayan calendar, not the Aztec.
This is a book I will read, even though I don't like reading at all.
Just because the calendar ends in 2012 doesn't mean the world is going to end - is it not possible that the Mayan gent responsible for calendar production just though "well, I'm up to 2012, I'm not gunna be around to enjoy it so I think I'll kickback for the rest of my contract"? Personally, my contract runs out in September and I kicked back months ago - I admire the Mayan for getting all the way to 2012!
Lock in the price? Are we perhaps expecting that the pre-order price will increase between now and the actual date?
Jobs above! Is this book going to have its own stock index ?
Just because the calendar ends in 2012 doesn't mean the world is going to end - is it not possible that the Mayan gent responsible for calendar production just though "well, I'm up to 2012, I'm not gunna be around to enjoy it so I think I'll kickback for the rest of my contract"?
Ha ha! Where Is Your Conspiracy Theory Now? In the end 2012 was a bit optimistic given what happened to the Mayan civilisation, with us Europeans and our superior calendar making skills.
Is Steve doing his best Dr Evil the best picture for the cover? I'd prefer 'Do I have to do everything around here myself' Steve, or 'Trust Me' 1970s Used Car Salesman Steve, but in the end my favourite would be 'Man, I can't wait 'til it happens' Steve. That could also be 'Man, I can't wait 'til I'm outta here' Steve...
I'll certainly buy it, but not through the iBook store as I can't read and sync across my Apple devices !!!
Ha ha! In the end 2012 was a bit overly optimistic given what happened to their civilisation, with us Europeans and our superior calendar making skills.
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We can extend the lifetime of the human race indefinitely by ordering new calendars from iPhoto.
Now that's what I call a legacy.
... even though I don't like reading at all.