Steve Jobs’s official biography was released on October 24, 2011. Written by Walter Isaacson, the author of bestselling biographies on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, the biography is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs as well as interviews with family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues. Walter Isaacson’s book is the first authorized biography of the Apple co-founder, who died October 5, 2011 at age 56.
As quoted on the book’s jacket: “Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.”
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published.
The book retails at $35.00 at most major booksellers; however, I purchased it at Walmart for $24.50 (too expensive according to my wife – we battled), and I found it on Amazon for as low as $17.50.
The book is currently #1 on Amazon’s Movers & Shakers list. Sales have increased by 42,000 percent since Apple announced Jobs’s death. The book moved from #424 to #1 on Amazon’s overall sales rankings, and is #4 at Barnes & Noble.
According to the author, Steve Jobs’s tale is “Instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values”.
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