Steve Jobs’ biography turns into U.S. bestseller

Steve Jobs’ authorized biography ‘Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography’ turned into highest-selling book in the U.S. market in its very first week, selling over 379,000 copies of the work, according to data provided by Nielsen.

The book, written by Walter Isaacson, discusses the co-founder of the technology company Apple and creator of the iPhone, the iPod and the iPad, who died at the age of 56 on the 5th October this year after a long fight with a pancreatic cancer.

This biography tripled the sales of the latest novel by the popular author John Grisham, ‘The Litigators,’ on the list of bestsellers, as well as outstripping the second non-fiction bestseller most commercialized during this period, ‘Killing Lincoln’ by Bill O’Reilly, which did not reach the 50,000-copy mark.

Jobs’ biography of went on sale on the 24th October and has already reached number 18 on the list of the year’s best-selling books in the U.S.

Isaacson interviewed Jobs more than 40 times to give the book substance, in which he is describes the hi-tech visionary as a romantic, sensitive and obsessed with the quest for beauty, yet demanding and conscious of his own power at the same time.

Extracts on the food habits of the creator of the iPad, his family life, relationship with drugs or his obsession with rival companies like Microsoft stirred up great public interest right from the start.


Source: News World, Friday 4th November