The authorized biography of Steve Jobs is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com and Apple’s iBookstore.
iSteve: The Book of Jobs is slated for release on March 6, 2012 and is written by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson’s past biographies include Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Einstein: His Life and Universe and Kissinger: A Biography.
The product description for the book reads:
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’s family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
Pre-order pricing for the book is $16.50 for the hardcover version and $14.99 for the Kindle or iBooks edition.
Steve Jobs is famous for closely guarding his private life, which makes his decision to cooperate on an official biography even more interesting. Many elements of Jobs’s biography are already part of the cultural zeitgeist, thanks to books like Fire in the Valley (which was the basis for the telefilm Pirates of Silicon Valley), The Little Kingdom (and its follow-up, Return to the Little Kingdom), iCon: Steve Jobs and The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.
Presumably the book covers more recent events in Apple and Jobs’s history, especially those that simply haven’t been covered in other books. Most of them stop around 2001 or 2002, with the introduction of the iPod.
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