Steve Jobs' Official Biography released November 21st.

Dman001

Never mind the new iPhones and iPods in September, this is a much more exciting release. Steve Jobs' Official biography is due to be release this coming November 21st, apparently pushed up from the March 2012 release date. Made up from 40 Interviews with Steve Jobs, along with Family and Friends, it should be a good read.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues this book chronicles the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. It is also a book about innovation. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the 21st century was to connect creativity with technology, so 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. He put nothing off limits and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly even foes, former girlfriends, and colleagues he had once fired or infuriated. “I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that,” he said. “But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.” Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/1104099551?ean=9781451648539&itm=1&usri=walter+isaacson+steve+jobs

Blazer

excellent...that's my kris kindle gift to a few android lovers this year....muhahahahahahaha:D

godtabh

i doubt it will be available on the kindle. iBook only!

Doodah7

godtabh wrote: »

i doubt it will be available on the kindle. iBook only!

Yes but it will be available on Nook so that's me sorted.

Dman001

godtabh wrote: »

i doubt it will be available on the kindle. iBook only!

I don't think Jobs will have any say in what formats it will be available in. It's all up to the publisher.

godtabh

Dman001 wrote: »

I don't think Jobs will have any say in what formats it will be available in. It's all up to the publisher.

It was a joke

jonnny68

I'll give Jobs credit where it's due he has aggressively mass marketed a product that anyone with little or no technical expertise can use (iPhone) and is hugely successful although Android have now taken over as global kings when it comes to smartphones.