Steve Jobs' Authorized Biography Gets New Title

[iRobby]

iBooks pre-order: Steve Jobs: A Biography

Product Description

From bestselling author Walter Isaacsoin comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: A Biography, 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’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation

About the Author

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.

 

[Takeo]

Then again... "You're reading it wrong" would have been funny.

 

[the vj]

It can't get more religious than that!

For sure is gonna be available in ever temple, I mean, Apple store.

 

[HowieR32]

Why do that when we have torrents?

I'm sure Steve won't mind missing out on a little cash not entering his 95ct gold lined wallet.

no cash enters his gold lined wallet besides the $1 he gets every year from his job at Apple...

 

[Zmmyt]

don't know what the biography will be like, but the revised title has more personality to it and doesn't seem like a new iProduct.

 

[MartiNZ]

iSteve: The Book of Jobs FTW!

Fully agree, made me literal LOL .

 

[AppleScruff1]

FYI it's not an autobiography. It would be if Steve was writing it himself.

That changes things completely.

 

[yauzers619]

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I'll just watch the movie...

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

 

[NutsNGum]

I heard this book is being released on one of those crappy R2D2 hologram discs - the special guest narrator hologram is Noam Chomsky.

 

[oban14]

As it's authorized, it'll be interesting to see how much of his drug usage gets included.

 

[wackymacky]

"The Book of Jobs" would sum up Steve's ego no doubt.

As for distrubution, how 'bout pre-installed on the iPad3

 

[Caharin]

I heard this book is being released as one of those crappy R2D2 hologram discs, followed by a revised rectal-implant 2nd edition.

I'm not sure what would be funnier, the fact that you meant "retinal implant" or the fact that you meant exactly what you said.

 

[Rocketman]

Steve's philosophies and life are so public, this biography will be a minor value added work as compared to public sources. Wanna sell a book with no hard cost? Concatenate all public publishings in a fully cited device. Hey, Kindle and iBooks will let you sell it!

Just Rocketman

BTW, it's not ego if in fact you are right by fact check and societal results.

 

[Porco]

Apparently the first edition will have extra blank pages and heavy paper. The second print will be 10% lighter and thinner. The third print will drop support for words altogether (though you can still write your own on the 20 blank pages provided).

The fourth print (Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 4P) will be a thought rather than a physical product. It will cost more than the print versions, and you may not share it.

 

[NutsNGum]

I'm not sure what would be funnier, the fact that you meant "retinal implant" or the fact that you meant exactly what you said.

I meant rectal, but my comment is now on edition 2. I think I've over-cooked it to be honest, the funny is most definitely gone.

 

[vincenz]

Much better. The old title was just awful.

 

[AidenShaw]

Preparation Ipad

I'm not sure what would be funnier, the fact that you meant "retinal implant" or the fact that you meant exactly what you said.

I meant rectal, but my comment is now on edition 2. I think I've over-cooked it to be honest, the funny is most definitely gone.

You two have absolutely warped how I will react to the announcement that the next Ipad will have a higher resolution screen.

 

[twoodcc]

i guess it's a better name, though i do like the original name also

 

[DougFNJ]

Interestingly, on iBooks in my iPhone, I just looked for Steve Jobs Biography and nothing came up, I looked up iSteve and preordered for $14.99.

I am guessing they will not cancel my pre-order, but just change the title

 

[ma2ha3]

i am not buying it, not download it for free, not reading it.
cause i do not want to be mistaken for a mac fan boy.

 

[DougFNJ]

i am not buying it, not download it for free, not reading it.
cause i do not want to be mistaken for a mac fan boy.

I could care less of what perception others have of me based on my reading. I would read the same type of book on Bill Gates as I have Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and the book I am reading about Google, In the Plex, these are all interesting historical references of interesting people and organizations.

Don't let opinions of others determine your decisions that may entertain or educate you.

 

[Nostromo]

Authorized biographies, vanity biographies.

 

[*LTD*]

The title is a little more worthy of the subject now. The old title was immature and trivialized the entire effort.

 

[locovaca]

Amazon? No thank you, I will not support those rip off artists.

Releasing this in an eBook-only format would've been a big statement. Sadly I'm sure the publisher would never agree to it, but paper books are on their way out. They're not green, they're not reusable, and they take up space on my shelf.

 

[Nostromo]

How about a Steve Jobs biography title competition?

Like " A Million Jobs"

or

"More Jobs for America"

How about "Getting the Jobs Done"?