Steve Jobs biography is Amazon’s best selling book in 2011

After only weeks of availability, Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become Amazon’s best-selling title of the year 2011. Simply entitled “Steve Jobs,” the biography moved to the top of Amazon's list of best sellers in 2011 this week, as first noted by MacRumors. In the short time it has been available for purchase, the book has outsold "Heaven is for Real "by Todd Burpo," Strengths Finder 2.0" by Tom Rath, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, and "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. 

At Amazon, the book is available in ahardcover edition, as well as digitally on the Kindle platform. The book can also be purchased through Apple's iBookstore.

The nonfiction title's tremendous success was expected, as on its first day of sales, an Amazon representative said Isaacson's take on Jobs was already on pace to become the top selling book of 2011. 

Amazon is the largest online retailer and bookseller in the world. Total sales are not known, but "Steve Jobs" sold a total of 379,000 copies in its first week in America alone. The title went on sale in late October, just weeks after Jobs passed away after a long bout with cancer.

Before the biography even went on sale to the public, Sony acquired the movie rights to Walter Isaacson's authorized take on the life of Jobs. One rumor has claimed that actors George Clooney and Noah Wyle are in contention to play the role of Jobs, while Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has said he is "strongly considering" writing the movie.

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Steve Jobs Biography now available via iBooks, Kindle.

The Steve Jobs biography authored by Walter Isaacson, who has appeared earlier for 60 minutes on CBS. It is now available on Apple’s own iBookstore and Amazon’s kindle store. Steve Jobs is the legend everyone know this in the World. He is the achiever; he brought the small company to an international level. Now it is hitting the stores after every releasing of Apple’s product. There is a success behind his hard work of so many years. Steve was affected by his father Paul jobs at a young age, his dad thought him attention to detail when it came to making the back of a fence looking just as good as the front. Isaacson had unprecedented access to jobs, his family, friends, colleagues and rivals and the book strives to show jobs not only as one of the most innovative and influential people of his time, but also as a human, a family man and more. He is a complete man Walter explained it in his own way. He is going to explain many more things on Jobs. What he felt when he started the Apple and when he get the success he is still follow the simplicity and did not turned into arrogant man. That’s special in Jobs. Walter had explained the entire life of Steve in such a proper way. He has given his family photos also.

  The book comes in at just over 20MB, and is priced at $17.99. You can order a hard cover copy from Amazon.ca for $23.

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