Cover via AmazonA biography of Steve Jobs, which has been officially authorized by Mr. Jobs personally, has just been made available on Amazon.com for pre-ordering. This book, entitled ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ is available to pre-order for any Apple user from iBookstore as well. Both the retailing sources have coined the date of 6th March 6, 2012 to be the official release date, which is almost around nine months from now. The author of this biography, Walter Isaacson, has a very impressionable portfolio of biographies of many famous personalities in the past. He has penned the biography of public figures like Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Einstein: His Life and Universe and Kissinger: A Biography.
Amazon.com and iBookStore both described the book, at the product description section, to be accredited by one of the well-experienced authors of our times, Walter Isaacson. It is exclusively mentioned that ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs,’ has given an extraordinary story of both the professional and personal lives of Jobs, by the hand of Isaacson. It is stated that the information has been “drawn from his three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson” along with his family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors too.
The price of the book, for pre-orders only, has been set to $16.50 for the physical copy, and $14.99 for the Kindle or iBooks edition. Steve Jobs has always been admired for his successfulness in protecting his private and personal life from his professional and public life. This is a key factor, that an official biography of such a person would be even more interesting. Many aspects of Steve Jobs’s biography have already been made public due to previously written books including Fire in the Valley and The Little Kingdom. But previously just one book, iCon: Steve Jobs, was an authorized and official copy and this will be the second.
Quite predictably this biography will mostly cover the recent events and happenings in Apple Inc. and Jobs’s life, and also the part which is not mentioned previously in other books. Looking at the commendable success of Apple, now that it is now valued more than Microsoft and Intel combined, it was largely speeded up after the lunch of the Intel Mac in 2006. It was further boosted by the launch of the iPhone, later in 2007. Furthermore, Jobs’s fight with a disease like cancer, and its impact on his life is an aspect which will be interesting to see in this book.
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