Jobs bio hits the best seller list
Just a couple of weeks after his passing, a book about the already legendary Steve Jobs is a best seller.
The authorized biography of the Apple co-founder went on sale at bookstores on Monday- but was released Sunday on Apple's iBook online store and Amazon's Kindle. It's currently at the top of the charts on Amazon- which says it could very likely be the top selling book of the year.
Mark Treichel bought it in a New York bookstore on Monday morning.
SOUNDBITE: MARK TREICHEL, BOUGHT STEVE JOBS BOOK (ENGLISH) SAYING:
"I bought the book because I wasn't initially a follower of Apple products or the company itself, but over the last few years, I guess like many others, I started to become more familiar with the products and see how they changed the world and personally for me I think that he's most likely a brilliant mind so maybe something to learn from him, pick up something from him, and see what happens."
Readers will also learn that Jobs called his rival Bill Gates "unimaginative" and said he shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas.
The biography by Walter Isaacson also reveals Jobs refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months, tried various quirky diets as a teenager and his management style was not always well received.
But for people touched by the products he invented, reading the book is a way to learn more about the technology pioneer they consider him to be.
Sigurdur Jonsson was a fan.
SOUNDBITE: SIGURDUR JONSSON, BOUGHT STEVE JOBS BOOK (ENGLISH) SAYING:
"This is a great guy, what he has been doing for the technology, for the computer world, it's amazing, and we've just seen some big steps taken forward."
Isaacson conducted more than 40 interviews with Jobs for the book, the last just this past August.
Bobbi Rebell, Reuters.
The authorized biography of the Apple co-founder went on sale at bookstores on Monday- but was released Sunday on Apple's iBook online store and Amazon's Kindle. It's currently at the top of the charts on Amazon- which says it could very likely be the top selling book of the year.
Mark Treichel bought it in a New York bookstore on Monday morning.
SOUNDBITE: MARK TREICHEL, BOUGHT STEVE JOBS BOOK (ENGLISH) SAYING:
"I bought the book because I wasn't initially a follower of Apple products or the company itself, but over the last few years, I guess like many others, I started to become more familiar with the products and see how they changed the world and personally for me I think that he's most likely a brilliant mind so maybe something to learn from him, pick up something from him, and see what happens."
Readers will also learn that Jobs called his rival Bill Gates "unimaginative" and said he shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas.
The biography by Walter Isaacson also reveals Jobs refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months, tried various quirky diets as a teenager and his management style was not always well received.
But for people touched by the products he invented, reading the book is a way to learn more about the technology pioneer they consider him to be.
Sigurdur Jonsson was a fan.
SOUNDBITE: SIGURDUR JONSSON, BOUGHT STEVE JOBS BOOK (ENGLISH) SAYING:
"This is a great guy, what he has been doing for the technology, for the computer world, it's amazing, and we've just seen some big steps taken forward."
Isaacson conducted more than 40 interviews with Jobs for the book, the last just this past August.
Bobbi Rebell, Reuters.