Steve Jobs’ passing in early October saw pre-orders of his biography jump by over 41,000% on Amazon.com, and following the book’s eventual release on the 24th of October, it shifted almost 380,000 copies in the first week across the board in the US.
So it will probably come as little surprise that Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs has shot to the top of Amazon.com’s best-seller list for 2011, which really is a big achievement considering it has only been on the market for a little over one month.
We reported back in October that Sony Pictures is set to make a big-screen movie based on the biography, with George Clooney tipped to take the lead role.
Number 2 on the Amazon best-seller list for 2011 is Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, which was first published in November 2010.
[...] With an official Steve Jobs biography due to be released in November, Walter Isaacson’s book’s release date was moved forward to provide Apple fans with an earlier chance to see what the man was really like. In its first week, it sold over 379,000 copies and later went on to secure top spot on Amazon’s bestseller list. [...]
[...] He’s willing to drop out of school for his dream shot in Silicon Valley, something he says he fantasizes about more since reading the Steve Jobs biography. [...]
[...] He’s willing to drop out of school for his dream shot in Silicon Valley, something he says he fantasizes about more since reading the Steve Jobs biography. [...]
[...] Sculley told the BBC that he hasn’t read the Steve Jobs biography penned by Walter Isaacson, he has talked to many people who have, and doesn’t seem to think he [...]