FORTUNE today released All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple From the Pages of FORTUNE, a new eBook available exclusively in the Amazon.com Kindle Store. The eBook features three decades of FORTUNE’s reporting on Steve Jobs and the rise of Apple, including interviews with Jobs and Adam Lashinsky’s recent investigative piece, Inside Apple, which gives a behind-the scenes look at how the company really works. All About Steve is priced at US$10.99.
All About Steve includes stories from veteran journalists Brent Schlender, Peter Elkind and Lashinsky, who have spoken to Apple employees and insiders at length. The eBook also contains an exclusive interview with Jobs from 2008, as well as Bill Gates and Jobs’ sit-down with FORTUNE from 1991 on the future of computing. Business leaders such as Andy Grove, Andrea Jung, Larry Ellison, Marc Andreessen, and Bill Campbell weigh in on how Jobs changed both the tech industry and society.
In addition, All About Steve includes many more stories chronicling the history of Apple from its emergence as a market leader in PCs to the creation of the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, and the Apple Store. The epilogue includes pieces from FORTUNE’s Miguel Helft and Stanley Bing.
In his foreword to All About Steve, FORTUNE Managing Editor Andy Serwer writes, “The stories contained in this new book from the editors of Fortune lay out in remarkable and unparalleled detail that this was no straight shot to success. Jobs, a man both loved and loathed, encountered all manner of intrigue, brick walls, and pitfalls before his ultimate vindication…. All these stories are the product of deep reporting. In many cases our writers spent hours interviewing Steve and delving into his mind…. The result is a singular journalistic collection, which will leave you with a comprehensive picture of Steve Jobs and Apple, a picture that is complex in the making yet simple in its triumph.”
All About Steve is available for download worldwide in English. It is published by the FORTUNE Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment, Inc.
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More info via Amazon.com here.
Source: Time Inc.
No thanks, I’ll wait for the authorized book from the iBook store.
Same here.
authorized copy is already available for pre-order:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/steve-jobs/id431617578?mt=11
Done and done 🙂
=:~)
You seem to be implying that it’s an unauthorized biography. It’s not. They’re not even suggesting that it is. It says right in the description: “from the pages of FORTUNE comes an anthology of 17 classic stories” — you can enjoy both books. You don’t have to be smug and look down upon this one, or avoid it. It’s not what you seem to think it is.
I don’t think you think what I think you are thinking. The guy only wants to buy from iBooks. So do I. Is that so wrong?
First, I don’t think you understand the meaning of the phrase “the authorized book”.
Second, if one just “wants to buy from iBooks”, why post about it online? Should he also post here in this thread if he decides he wants to buy “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” from iBooks?
Do you not comprehend that the book that this post is about is not an “unauthorized” version of an “authorized” book soon to be available on iBooks?
I guess you don’t.
Tone down the attitude … dickhead.
don’t be a baby.
This book is not authorised in any way; it includes the many nonsensical garbage pieces like, for example, about Jobs going to Voodoo to heal the cancer back in 2003, and waiting eight month before doing the assigned surgery (this nonsense was denied even before it was made-up: in 2005 Jobs said he was diagnosed in 2004 in summer and had surgery in August). The article was released close to Apple earnings report with clear goal to play on FUD bearishly.
So the authorisation is the key.
Too bad about the marginal cover photo. A book about an iconic figure needs an iconic cover design and photo. I hope any accompanying, inside graphics and photos are better than the cover.
Is this just a rehash of what they already published?