“The new biography of deceased Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs may be Amazon.com Inc’s top-selling book of 2011, a spokeswoman at the largest Internet retailer said on Monday,” Alistair Barr and Jennifer Saba report for Reuters.
“The biography ‘Steve Jobs,’ by Walter Isaacson, hit bookstores on Monday but was released earlier than expected on Apple’s iBooks online store [sic] and Amazon’s Kindle late Sunday,” Barr and Saba report. “The book is the best-selling book on Amazon.com and is also listed as the top-selling electronic book on the company’s Kindle eBook store.”
Barr and Saba report, “‘The way things are trending, it could very likely be our top-selling book of the year,’ Amazon spokeswoman Brittany Turner said in a statement.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Steve Jobs can now be purchased from Apple’s iBookstore (US$16.99) here: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]