Steve Jobs Biography Now Available in U.S. On iBooks

[MacRumors]

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The Steve Jobs biography is now available in the U.S. on Apple's iBooks. The book had been rolling out across the world and is now available in all regions.

The book is an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson that has received positive reviews as many facts have leaked in the days before its official release. Steve Jobs, himself, reached out to Isaacson to suggest the author write a biography on Jobs. At the time of the initial offer, Isaacson was unaware of Steve Jobs' declining health. Isaacson had asked Jobs prior to his passing why he had agreed to participate:

In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? "I wanted my kids to know me," he said. "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."

Jobs passed away on October 5th from pancreatic cancer.

The book is also available in hard copy at Amazon.

Article Link: Steve Jobs Biography Now Available in U.S. On iBooks

 

[ECUpirate44]

This is the one book that id rather have a hard copy.

 

[esposimi]

It's available on Kindle too, just got pushed to my apps on iPod, Mac, and TouchPad

 

[Reach9]

Ah iBooks, an invention of Jobs himself.

Can't wait to understand who he was as a whole.

 

[iDisk]

In memory of Steve Im sure people will have a Digital copy and Physical copy.... Reminding us the Digital impact he and his company had on our lives, but a physical copy to remind us, he has in a way, inspired us on a more "physical" sense in our lives.

 

[MultiMediaWill]

Lots of the stories in here seem made up... not enough time Walter?

 

[briankwest77]

Downloaded on iBooks but you can't read it all the text is squished up and stacked. Anyone else notice this?

/b

 

[Jerome Morrow]

This is the one book that id rather have a hard copy.

Agreed.

 

[KPOM]

Just downloaded it. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[mox358]

Pre-ordered and iTunes still shows it as coming Oct. 24... in the iBooks app it shows it as available to buy though?

Since I pre-ordered will mine not download until midnight?

 

[arn]

Downloaded on iBooks but you can't read it all the text is squished up and stacked. Anyone else notice this?

/b

mine looks fine (on an iPhone 4S)

arn

 

[nasa25]

So I preordered this and now it's gone from my "purchased" list as a preorder, not in my bookshelf but freely available for download. So what was the point in me preordering?

 

[LagFighter]

Pre-ordered, do not have option to download. When I go to the page for the book, it's available for 16.99...

Any ideas?

 

[TBRAMS]

Pre-ordered and iTunes still shows it as coming Oct. 24... in the iBooks app it shows it as available to buy though?

Since I pre-ordered will mine not download until midnight?

Cancel your pre-order and download it.
Log into Itunes store
goto your account
sign in
scroll down to "manage pre orders" hit cancel

 

[dlastmango]

is there a way to see the text and hear the audio book at the same time?
meaning to do this on an ipad... not a physical book.. That will come later for sure.

thanks
Chris

 

[TBRAMS]

is there an audio version for the book yet?

 

[dlastmango]

is there an audio version for the book yet?

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=473826062&s=14344

 

[saving107]

is there an audio version for the book yet?

I thought I read somewhere that audible.com was going to have an audio version, but they don't provide a link yet.

I can't wait till Barnes and Noble opens tomorrow morning, I want the Hard Cover Book. An employee at Target showed me the book yesterday (and tried to sell it to me, but the register wouldn't allow it), its thick and intimidating, but I want to read it.

 

[TBRAMS]

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAudiobook?id=473826062&s=14344

thank you

 

[yrsued]

This is the one book that id rather have a hard copy.

I pre ordered it from B&N, but got the IBook too. Now I can start reading it tonight

This is going to live on my IPad for my long plane trips.

Y

 

[TBRAMS]

50 min audiobook download time

 

[briankwest77]

is there an audio version for the book yet?

Amazon has it on CD also... I ordered it too.

 

[meeks]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Just purchased on iPad and going to begin reading now. Looks like it will be a long night.

 

[japanime]

In both the Kindle and iBooks version, there's a typo on the very first page following the Table to Contents (in the "Characters" section). The reference to Sōtō zen is incorrectly spelled with an extra "o" — Soōtoō.

Oops! Or, should that be "Oōps!"?

A minor error, definitely. But still surprising, given that this book is coming from a major publishing house, and is expected to live up to Apple's high standards for quality.

Anyway, I'm curious as to whether this same typo found its way into hardback version of the book.

 

[Clix Pix]

OK, I'm confused. I preordered the book a while ago. Shortly after 11:00 I got an email notifying me that the book was ready for download. However, when I went into iTunes to do it, it wasn't listed as ready for download or among my purchases? For some reason I'd thought it would automatically download into my computer(s) and iPad and iPhone?