Pre-Orders Soar For Authorized Steve Jobs Biography

NEW YORK -- An authorized biography of Steve Jobs was high on best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death. And publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that the release date has been moved up from Nov. 21 to Oct. 24.

As of early Thursday morning, Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" was No. 1 on Amazon.com and No. 3 on Barnes & Noble.com. Fittingly, the book also tops Apple's own list: the iTunes books best-seller list.

Isaacson's book includes extensive interviews with the Apple co-founder, who rarely discussed his private life. Isaacson has written best-selling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.

Jobs died Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with cancer.

Comments

[bryanzth]

10:25 AM on 10/07/2011

With regard to learning that one has pancreatic cancer, I only remember our neighbor Trudy, who, upon finding that she had pancreatic cancer, started to close out her life, sell things, literally carefully planning for her demise. But the thing that really was hard was that she didn't want to see anybody, especially my Mother who couldn't understand why and was really sad about not being able to see her friend.

Steve did his best. I guess, so did Trudy.

BZ.

[MIKEinNYC]

08:33 AM on 10/07/2011

When you have pancreatic cancer it's no secret that you're going to die. No revelation this!

The irony is that once again we see someone with all the money in the world and still nothing could be done to fight this terrible disease.

[builderman55]

07:04 PM on 10/06/2011

I am saddened beyond words that one of humanity's brightest lights has been extinguished...

[BrandonAbell]

06:56 PM on 10/06/2011

Really classy of you to post a link with your affiliate code in it. Spammer.