Amazon.com and other online booksellers are now listing Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, for pre-order.
The 448-page book is being published by Simon & Schuster; release is set for March 6, 2012. (Cover pictured is likely confirmed to be temporary.)
The official description provides new detail while reiterating what was announced in April:
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life.Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
The description is remiss in omitting reference to Jobs' role at Pixar, but there's no conceivable chance Isaacson has done the same in his future bestseller. If he talked to Jobs' family and competitors, you can bet he talked to his colleagues at Pixar.
I recently finished reading Isaacson's excellent biography of Benjamin Franklin, a man I frankly knew nothing about. If Isaacson captures as much detail about Jobs' life as he did of Franklin's, iSteve will be the biography of the decade.
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I don't care about Jobs, his company and his stupid book.
*sighaboutanonymouspeoplewhowhinebutaretooscaredtoleavetheirname*
Hey AnonTheTroll, this is a blog. Deal with it.
The book looks intriguing. Any hardcore Pixar fan knows the Jobs/Pixar connection, and why it's somewhat relevant.
Wow, Anonymous you must be a grown-up with a clever comment like that.
What a bit of bad luck though that you ended up on a site for a company so closely linked with him. Still, at least you had the strength to leave a message before you left in horror at your mistake.
@Anonymous #1:
Technically, Pixar is (more precisely, was) Steve Job's company. That's the main reason Mike posted this.
Aside from that, however, I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs myself.
E_Gal, Bob, Anonymous 2.0: Thank you.
I'm not the kind of person who likes digging into famous people's lives, but Steve Jobs' story seems to me one of the most interesting, curious and ironic stories of success available these days. I'm really looking forward to it.
I liked that he saved Pixar from bankruptcy over 2 decades ago, but that's literally all he did.
In addition to my previous comment, almost all of my information about Steve Jobs comes from The Pixar Touch. It doesn't exactly cast him in a positive light.
Anonymous #2 (not 2.0): Are you really that ill-informed about Pixar's history?
I'm dubious of authorized biographies in general principle. There are very few life-stories one can tell honestly and completely without mentioning some things that the subject would rather not be common knowledge.
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