Fortune releases new Kindle-exclusive eBook on the rise of Steve Jobs

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Fortune magazine on Tuesday released "All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple from the pages of FORTUNE," an eBook available exclusively from Amazon's Kindle Store.



The eBook, which can also be read on an iPhone or iPad using Amazon's Kindle application, contains 17 stories spanning thirty years of reporting on Steve Jobs, who Fortune named CEO of the decade in 2009. The pieces, compiled from investigative reporting by the magazine's editors and reporters, take an in-depth look at how Jobs helped Apple change the computing industry.



The Amazon Kindle exclusive chronicles the history of Apple from its emergence as a PC market leader to the creation of the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and the Apple Store. Highlights from the eBook are an exclusive interview with Jobs from 2008, as well as Bill Gates and Jobs' conversation with Fortune from 1991 on the future of computing.



Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer writes in the forward that the eBook is a "singular journalistic collection" of stories that offer a comprehensive picture of Jobs and his impact on Apple.



"Jobs, a man both loved and loathed, encountered all manner of intrigue, brick walls, and pitfalls before his ultimate vindication," Serwer writes. "In many cases our writers spent hours interviewing Steve and delving into his mind."







The anthology also includes Adam Lashinsky's recent investigative piece, "Inside Apple," that gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how the company operates. Business leaders such as Larry Ellison, Andy Grove and Andrea Jung also give commentary as to how Jobs changed the tech industry and the cultural landscape.



The eBook is available for download now on the Kindle Store, and is priced at $10.99.
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  • Reply 1 of 27
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    They're so completely effing clueless it isn't even funny.



    eBook. About Steve Jobs. Not being sold on the iBooks Store.



    Screw you, Fortune.
  • Reply 2 of 27
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    They're so completely effing clueless it isn't even funny.



    eBook. About Steve Jobs. Not being sold on the iBooks Store.



    Screw you, Fortune.





    Don't take it so personally. Amazon wanted to give them more money for the exclusive.



    I always wondered why Steve never updated his glasses frames. Those look so 1960s.
  • Reply 3 of 27
    anoldaplguyanoldaplguy Posts: 28member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    They're so completely effing clueless it isn't even funny.



    eBook. About Steve Jobs. Not being sold on the iBooks Store.



    Screw you, Fortune.



    I totally agree, what a crock of SHxT! And lets see, how to open the door to a lawsuit from Steve Jobs too.... Idiots!!!!
  • Reply 4 of 27
    igorleandroigorleandro Posts: 36member
    Hahaha, that is ffffing hilarious...



    - Lets make a book about music... and... lets sell it on the painters market... yes, that is were our best public is...
  • Reply 5 of 27
    mrkrusermrkruser Posts: 2member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    They're so completely effing clueless it isn't even funny.



    eBook. About Steve Jobs. Not being sold on the iBooks Store.



    Screw you, Fortune.



    Ditto that... Fortune sucks, in all areas.
  • Reply 6 of 27
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mrkruser View Post


    Ditto that... Fortune sucks, in all areas.



    Did you even read the article? What did you find objectionable about:

    'Steve Jobs, who Fortune named CEO of the decade in 2009'?
  • Reply 7 of 27
    xsamplexxsamplex Posts: 214member
    Amusingly Ironic. Well played Fortune, well played.
  • Reply 8 of 27
    gmcalpingmcalpin Posts: 266member
    You guys know there's a Kindle app, right? Because there is one.



    So? what difference does it frickin' make?
  • Reply 9 of 27
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gmcalpin View Post


    You guys know there's a Kindle app, right? Because there is one.



    So… what difference does it frickin' make?



    I don't want Amazon's proprietary formats?



    I don't want ebooks that can't be read on other readers?



    I don't want the Kindle app at all?



    I already have iBooks?



    Take your frickin' pick.
  • Reply 10 of 27
    neiltc13neiltc13 Posts: 182member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    I don't want ebooks that can't be read on other readers?







    List of devices books purchased from the iBooks store can be read on:



    - iPhone

    - iPad

    - iPod touch



    List of devices books purchased from the Kindle store can be read on:



    - Kindle

    - Kindle DX

    - iPhone

    - iPad

    - iPod touch

    - Mac

    - Windows

    - Android smartphones

    - Android tablets

    - Android PMPs
  • Reply 11 of 27
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by neiltc13 View Post


    List of devices books purchased from the iBooks store can be read on:

    List of devices books purchased from the Kindle store can be read on:



    Fine, the other three, then.
  • Reply 12 of 27
    camroidv27camroidv27 Posts: 523member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by neiltc13 View Post


    List of devices books purchased from the Kindle store can be read on:



    - Kindle

    - Kindle DX

    - iPhone

    - iPad

    - iPod touch

    - Mac

    - Windows

    - Android smartphones

    - Android tablets

    -- Nook Color

    -- Nook Touch (Rooted)

    - Android PMPs



    Added two devices for you. But I do agree that the Kindle DRM is pretty disheartening.
  • Reply 13 of 27
    apple ][apple ][ Posts: 9,233member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gmcalpin View Post


    You guys know there's a Kindle app, right? Because there is one.



    So? what difference does it frickin' make?



    I have both the iBooks app and the Kindle app on my iPad and I read a bunch of books.



    I do prefer reading in iBooks, mainly because I like the page turns better.
  • Reply 14 of 27
    inline1inline1 Posts: 10member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by xSamplex View Post


    Amusingly Ironic. Well played Fortune, well played.



    Steve jobs would be proud of the obvious acknowledgement of how he controlled the environment his products live and work in. Time will show it is the best if not the only way to insure the success of a product. The alternative is an open environment which is prone to lost productivity.



    Steve Jobs via Apple has greatly changed and improved my life.
  • Reply 15 of 27
    tbelltbell Posts: 3,146member
    Including the rooted Nook isn't fair. If that were the case, you'd have to note that Apple's iBooks uses open sourced epub as the format. It wraps the ePup content in Apple's fair play DRM. There are resources on the Internet that tell you how to strip that. Once stripped, iBook epub content can be viewed on a plethora of devices like Sony's readers, PCs, Macs, and the Nook.



    Just saying.





    Quote:
    Originally Posted by camroidv27 View Post


    Added two devices for you. But I do agree that the Kindle DRM is pretty disheartening.



  • Reply 16 of 27
    irontedironted Posts: 129member
    Man, SJ looks so good in this picture! Whatever that happened to him was so unfair!
  • Reply 17 of 27
    obi-wan kubrickobi-wan kubrick Posts: 131member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mstone View Post


    Don't take it so personally. Amazon wanted to give them more money for the exclusive.



    I always wondered why Steve never updated his glasses frames. Those look so 1960s.



    He is a product of the 60's so it's only natural he wears the same glasses John Lennon wore. Plus he pulls the glasses off, which is hard to do unless you're Harry Potter. I'm biased towards 60's fashion since I'm addicted to Mad Men.
  • Reply 18 of 27
    king of beigeking of beige Posts: 178member
    Not to worry to much, it's just another cheap marketing trick to confuse Apple's non-savvy customers, and further, the e-book is just a collection of previously published pieces about Jobs, it appears the only new words in the whole production are in the forward written by Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer. A bit of a rip-off for $10.95 don't you think, eh Andy?



    In the end, this e-book will serve as a fantastic reminder to Kindle buyers that they have been tricked, and that they should return their Kindle before the returns policy expires and go get an iPad - so they can finally get the iOS, iTunes and the App Store experience - which is what they wanted to buy in the first place.



  • Reply 19 of 27
    alfiejralfiejr Posts: 1,524member
    this is beyond stupid. this is beyond don't have a clue. this is beyond what a total f*cking idiot.



    this is true all-time-level incompetence.



    Fortune should change its name to Bus Token.
  • Reply 20 of 27
    matrix07matrix07 Posts: 1,993member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gmcalpin View Post


    You guys know there's a Kindle app, right? Because there is one.



    So? what difference does it frickin' make?



    I want all my books in one place.
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