“CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster is moving up publication of a biography of Steve Jobs to Oct. 24, according to a spokeswoman for the publisher,” Jessica E. Vascellaro reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Mr. Jobs, the Apple co-founder widely admired for transforming the technology and media industries, died Wednesday after a prolonged illness,” Vascellaro reports. “The pioneering and often elusive technology leader granted Mr. Isaacson his rare cooperation for the book, making it highly anticipated. Mr. Isaacson has written popular biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and is the former editor of Time magazine.”
Vascellaro reports, “‘Steve Jobs,’ which is available for pre-order, zoomed up the Amazon.com best-seller list Wednesday night and currently tops the list.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Pre-order for US$16.99 via Apple’s iBookstore, expected release date Nov. 21, 2011: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
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We certainly don’t want a little thing like class or respect get in the way of an opportunity to promote our new book.
I thought it was already tentatively scheduled for the October 24 date. The date also happens to be exactly 6 months from SJ last (and next) birthday.
I know the public emotion is strong right now, and the already bestseller will just fly off every shelves (virtual and physical) right now; but I probably would have preferred if the author and the publisher would not rush things to market on sentiment, but because the work is actually completed in a polished and definitive tone.
Is the iBookstore version coming out on October 24th as well?
I think as a tribute, Apple could add this book to the books that come with the iBookstore on every iPad & iPhone.
Or sell it for the same $1 salary Steve took.
Something to look forward, I must say.
I want it in hardback: I think Steve rates it, no matter the cost.
in the Swedish iBook store it is only available in Italian!
Pre-ordered – yes. thx Steve.