Well, looks like the Steve Jobs Bio is priced like other Apple products.

[kennyc]

Forbes Review:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancau...ane-nor-great/

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At the same time, Isaacson never shows the thought process that allowed Jobs to convince the people around him to jump off a cliff and expect the universe to catch them. Yet the book describes Jobs doing it again, and again. “Don’t be afraid,” Jobs told Corning Chief Executive Wendell Weeks just months before the launch of Apple’s iPhone. Jobs needed a new kind of scratch-proof, nearly unbreakable glass that Corning had invented. “Yes you can do it,” Jobs told Weeks. “Get your mind around it. You can do it.”

It was that will is what defined Jobs. He would will his best friend, Steve Wozniak, to complete a circuit board design for Atari in days, instead of weeks. He willed the Macintosh team to create months worth of code in a matter of weeks. He willed the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad into existence. Each success only made him bolder. “Even though he was now running a large company, he kept making bold moves that I don’t think anybody else would have done,” Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook told Isaacson.

Those moves didn’t always work out. For example, Jobs would try – and fail – to convince a court that Jobs, himself given up for adoption by parents who didn’t want him, wasn’t a father (he would later acknowledge paternity and help raise his eldest daughter, even they were too much alike for their relationship to described as an easy one). Jobs kept at it until — in 2005 — he faced a reality he he couldn’t browbeat, cajole, and beg into submission: his own body......

[monkeyluis]

I don't know if any one else had mentioned it. But I pre-ordered in June for $14.99. Got it for that price on release day because of the price guarantee. I still wou
D have paid $16.99 for it. Very interesting read so far.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Me to, it was one of my favorites, but Steve Jobs was NOT in it!

But he watched it when he was a kid. You can tell because it was good.

[monkeyluis]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

What's the point in pre-ordering an ebook? Do those who pre-order get it 1 second quicker than those who purchase it after it's been released?

When I see a book I want to read that's on pre-order I order it like any other book. That way it's automatically delivered. I don't have to think about it again. Done & over. Is that ok? I have a few other books on pre-order now that I want to read in the future. Now they'll just arrive on my kindle & I don't have to remember.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by HappyMartin

I don't believe that the book is a "product" of Steve Jobs

Yes, it is, from what I've read.

He chose the author, and made the critical decision to assist the author without impeding him. Apparently, he directed the author to people who had reason not to like him, and did not ask for any kind of editorial control or even to read any part of it.

I think that Jobs was the kind of guy for whom getting things right was The Imperative. He seems to have taken the necessary steps to make sure that his biography was done right, even to the point of truthfully describing his faults and incorporating the views of those who disliked him.

[OtterBooks]

He was a mercurial fellow, and I look forward to reading the bio.

[HarleyB]

I'm really amazed that it is relatively cheap in Australia at only $9.99 on both Kobo and Borders! Amazon has it at $10.37.
Is it still more expensive in North America or has the price dropped there now?

[MikoNoNyte]

Originally Posted by Insalata

Mastering the Art of French Cooking is $20 for the ebook version of a 40-year old book. Apple aren't the only ones who charge as much as they think the market will stand.

Mind you that's only Volume ONE. I didn't even bother looking at a sample for that. How many volumes will they milk out of that I wonder.

[ucfgrad93]

I won't pay $17 for an ebook. I'll wait for it to come down or buy the physical book.

[Baldrake]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

What's the point in pre-ordering an ebook? Do those who pre-order get it 1 second quicker than those who purchase it after it's been released?

I sometimes pre-order ebooks so I don't have to keep checking back to see if they have been released yet.

[Insalata]

Originally Posted by MikoNoNyte

Mind you that's only Volume ONE. I didn't even bother looking at a sample for that. How many volumes will they milk out of that I wonder.

The original Mastering was in two volumes, so I assumed they're following the same structure - but it's just an assumption, they could be planning dozens!