14 DAY TRIAL // Publisher Barnes & Noble has confirmed that Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs will be ready in November this year, not in March 2012 as previously anticipated. The new (much improved) cover is also revealed.
At 448 pages long, Steve Jobs: A Biography is launching on November 21st, according to Barnes & Noble, the publisher.
Written by renowned author Walter Isaacson, the book is based on more than forty interviews with the CEO conducted over two years.
Isaacson also drew his information from interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues/
“…this book chronicles the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing,” reads the description.
“At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination,” the publishers add.
“He knew that the best way to create value in the 21st century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.”
Barnes & Noble reveals that Jobs himself asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published.
Jobs reportedly insisted that the people who know him speak their minds freely, be they enemies or friends.
The CEO also personally noted, “I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.”
According to the publisher, thanks to the hundreds of interviews and bits of information provided by friends, family and colleagues, readers will experience what is described as “an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.”