14 DAY TRIAL // Those of you who are having a tough time waiting for the official Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, or Agate’s ‘quotes’ book arriving in November can now visit Amazon for a little surprise.
Fortune apparently realized that the hype surrounding Steve Jobs’ resignation and the public’s anticipation of his first official bio would create demand for any book that had Steve Jobs in its title and got published earlier.
So they came up with “All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple from the Pages of Fortune,” an eBook that sells for $12.41 in Kindle format.
It weighs in at 1150 KB, or just over 1 megabyte. Don’t be fooled though. You can stuff a lot of text in a document that takes up this little space on your Kindle device.
In usual fashion, Amazon offers a brief description of its product, which goes:
“Steve Jobs’ legacy is clear: The most innovative business leader of our time, the man FORTUNE named CEO of the Decade in 2009. Now from the pages of FORTUNE comes an anthology of 17 classic stories spanning the years 1983 to 2011 about the cultural icon who revolutionized computing, telephones, movies, music, retailing, and product design. The stories lay out in unparalleled detail the career of a man with relentless drive and a single underlying passion—to carry out his vision of how all of us would use technology.”
A quote from managing editor Andy Serwer (from the book’s foreword) is also offered: “In the end he was proved right a billion times over, and his company Apple became one of the most successful enterprises on the planet.”
“All these stories are the product of deep reporting. In many cases FORTUNE’s writers spent hours interviewing Jobs and delving into his mind. The result is a singular journalistic collection, which will leave you with a comprehensive picture of Steve Jobs and Apple, a picture that is complex in the making yet simple in its triumph,” the description ends.