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

Just bought it on my iphone in iBooks, read for a bit, then decided to switch to iPad, but it doesn't show up in my purchased items list. Gah!
 
I just posted this on my Facebook, but I'll repost here:

Crazy thing just happened. I've purchased the Steve Jobs biography in hardcover already, but I couldn't wait, so I popped into the iBookstore. Thinking it would be a waste to purchase the whole book again, I decided just to download the free sample passage. The sample is the first 41 pages. Well, I reached the 41st page and turned it. The book continued, but I no longer had page numbers at the bottom of the screen. I've gone another 30 or so pages past the first 41 pages of the free sample. Did they somehow accidentally give me the whole book for free?!

(Note: I also had the squashed text at first too, but when I changed the type to Baskerville and then back to Original, it fixed it. Also, I keep turning the pages with no end in sight so far!)

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You will get to buy it at the page 112. It's not free!

ferdinandcc said:
I just posted this on my Facebook, but I'll repost here:

Crazy thing just happened. I've purchased the Steve Jobs biography in hardcover already, but I couldn't wait, so I popped into the iBookstore. Thinking it would be a waste to purchase the whole book again, I decided just to download the free sample passage. The sample is the first 41 pages. Well, I reached the 41st page and turned it. The book continued, but I no longer had page numbers at the bottom of the screen. I've gone another 30 or so pages past the first 41 pages of the free sample. Did they somehow accidentally give me the whole book for free?!

(Note: I also had the squashed text at first too, but when I changed the type to Baskerville and then back to Original, it fixed it. Also, I keep turning the pages with no end in sight so far!)
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saving107 said:
I'm buying the hard cover copy tomorrow morning, but the sample on iBooks (on my iPad) says its 79 pages,

So far I'm on page 65 and it's a good read, I like it so far.
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Mine was 79 pages too for the sample. Really good book so far and almost made me buy it on iBooks right away. I decided not to since my hardcover is coming Tuesday from Amazon
 
Another hardbound to my library

I hope the hardbound ordered so long ago arrives this week. I look forward to seeing which stories of the past at NeXT and Apple stuck in his mind and how well he characterizes former colleagues.
 
Leaked? Did someone say LEAKED? That implies the owners would have made attempts to keep it for themselves. It was thrown in excerpts in the face of mankind for pure promotion purposes. This marketing campaign is disgusting.
 
klrobinson999 said:
Did the book balloon or what? Originally was 674 pages, now 933 pages long!
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Depends on what you're using to read it. Even if the print edition had 674 pages, the same amount of text might fill more "pages" on an iPad screen, varying even more widely if you change the text size. When you open it up on your iPhone, the number shoots up even higher, since you have to turn a lot more of those small "pages" to get through the same number of words.
 
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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: 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
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Available in Australia too. Going to start reading on iPhone and than the real book tomorrow.
 
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Not available for Kobo

Kobo really dropped the ball here. This is the most anticipated book of the season, if not the year and it's not available on Kobo.

Luckily, we can get the free sample on iBooks which will tide me over for a couple of days, at which point if it's not available on Kobo, then something's really wrong with that company and I'm giving up on rebuying my collection there as I had originally planned.

I love my Kobo eReader but it's only as good as the books offered in the store.
 
Anyone having issues with the text needs to reset their iPad,next time you open ibooks it will be fixed.
 
Not available in New Zealand

Unfortunatly only free books ae available in NZ so will buy from Amazon. Kinda disappointing!
 
My iBook version refuses to load any images whatsoever. No text issues though... maybe I should re-download the book?
 
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Good read so far. Ordered hard cover aswell, but reading on the iPad works surprisingly well so i think im gonna settle for digital. Well worth the 15 bucks or so.
 
Just downloaded the Unabridged audio version from Audible.co.uk. Luckily the presenter has a good voice, so i'm enjoying listening to it. Audiobooks don't always have such good voiceovers.

It's good that the voiceover is comfortable to listen to, as the unabridged version is 25 hours long(!)
 
I wish people would actually read the book before they give it a rating. While its the biography of Steve Jobs, if its a poorly written book I would look elsewhere.
 
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Just had an e-mail from amazon to say my hard-copy of the book has been despatched for next day delivery :D
 
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