Highly anticipated 'Becoming Steve Jobs' biography now available
The hotly anticipated biography "Becoming Steve Jobs" debuted on Tuesday to set the record straight on Apple's cofounder and upon launch rocketed to the No. 1 spot on Amazon's Rich & Famous Biographies list.
Co-authored by longtime tech journalist Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli, "Becoming Steve Jobs" is an intimate look into the life of Apple's cofounder, one that looks to dispel common myths about who he was and how he lived. Much of the book comes from Schlender's personal notes, a bulk of which were not suitable for publishing while Jobs was still alive.
A number of revelations have already been shared through "leaks" and early previews, including the fact that current Apple CEO Tim Cook once offered Jobs part of his liver in hopes of saving the ailing tech guru's life. Jobs adamantly refused.
Other topics include Jobs' final years and the legacy he left at Apple.
The book is peppered with interviews from top-ranking executives like Cook, who agreed to be part of the biography due to Schlender's longtime connection with Jobs (Jobs used to introduce Schlender as his friend) and a compulsion to influence their former chief's public image. For example, Cook calls Walter Isaacson's official biography, which came out in 2011, a "tremendous disservice."
"We decided to participate in Brent and Rick's book because of Brent's long relationship with Steve, which gave him a unique perspective on Steve's life. The book captures Steve better than anything else we've seen, and we are happy we decided to participate," Apple representative Steve Dowling said.
"Becoming Steve Jobs" is available for for $11.99 on Kindle or $19.83 on hardback through Amazon.com and $12.99 on the iBookstore.
Co-authored by longtime tech journalist Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli, "Becoming Steve Jobs" is an intimate look into the life of Apple's cofounder, one that looks to dispel common myths about who he was and how he lived. Much of the book comes from Schlender's personal notes, a bulk of which were not suitable for publishing while Jobs was still alive.
A number of revelations have already been shared through "leaks" and early previews, including the fact that current Apple CEO Tim Cook once offered Jobs part of his liver in hopes of saving the ailing tech guru's life. Jobs adamantly refused.
Other topics include Jobs' final years and the legacy he left at Apple.
The book is peppered with interviews from top-ranking executives like Cook, who agreed to be part of the biography due to Schlender's longtime connection with Jobs (Jobs used to introduce Schlender as his friend) and a compulsion to influence their former chief's public image. For example, Cook calls Walter Isaacson's official biography, which came out in 2011, a "tremendous disservice."
"We decided to participate in Brent and Rick's book because of Brent's long relationship with Steve, which gave him a unique perspective on Steve's life. The book captures Steve better than anything else we've seen, and we are happy we decided to participate," Apple representative Steve Dowling said.
"Becoming Steve Jobs" is available for for $11.99 on Kindle or $19.83 on hardback through Amazon.com and $12.99 on the iBookstore.
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... and upon launch rocketed to the No. 1 spot on Amazon's Rich & Famous Biographies list.
eclipsing other best sellers such as Candice Bergen's and Willie Nelson's biographies.
It may well be the first book about Steve Jobs that Ive wanted to read, but is it the first book about Steve Jobs that you wanted to read?
I guess well never know.
I've finished it, so now it's time to wreck it for everybody else:
He dies at the end.
????
I'm hearing this book has been so popular that a sequel has been planned: The Return (Again) of Steve Jobs.
We've had Steve Jobs (WI).
This one sounds like Steve Jobs Strikes Back.
So yes, your suggestion sounds apt.
I bought the hardcover, but won't read it until my vacation in mid-April. This will be the first book about Steve Jobs Ive wanted to read.
Me too -- just ordered the hardcover. And it'll be my recuperative reading from some surgery planned for late April. (Nothing serious).
Of course, I've got to stop reading tech blogs altogether between now and then....
(Add: I am sure it's the first book about SJ that Ive wanted to read!
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Yep, pre-ordered it. Scheduled for delivery tomorrow.
I've got a stack of books to read but this will go to the top and probably be done by the weekend!
Best.
I'm purposely going on a cruise so I can detach.
Started reading it last night and already 50 or 60 pages in IMO its so much better than the Isaacson book, which I didn't care for in the least. Enjoy!
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I used a credit and got a free audio-book copy of it on Audible. I will still buy the hardback. Audio-Books don't really appeal to me much. The voice kills any imagination, which makes reading a book fun.
Either that, or I love the sound of my own mental reading!
I'm the opposite. I don't seem to have the time to sit down to read so I like audiobooks because I listen to them whilst driving, which I do a lot. The areas of the brain for driving and processing spoken word don't seem to interfere with each other.
You don't have children, I see.
Even a book about Steve Jobs costs a buck more in iBooks than it does on Amazon?
Jobs was an interesting guy, a successful guy.
The cult of celebrity however, demands that he be placed upon a pedestal.
The DoJ will want to hear about that.