Steve Jobs Biography Hits the Bookshelves
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 00:53 IST
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Bangalore: The latest biography of late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs hit book-shelves presenting unquestionably the complete, insightful look into the life and times of the respected technology visionary. The biography, serves as a journal of Silicon Valley, of late 20th and early 21st-century technology, and of American modernization at its best. "Steve Jobs" is a must-read for those who have spent gained maturity in the world of computers.
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Internet retailer Amazon.com has announced that the new biography of Steve Jobs may possibly turn out to be its top selling book of the year. The digital version of the book was launched on Apple's iBooks online store and Amazon's Kindle eBook store. The biography is presently the best-selling book on Amazon.com. It is also said to be the best selling electronic book on the Kindle. A good portion of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs centers on Microsoft and Bill Gates. The former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is exemplified as "a business person" in the book, but not someone who of necessity made great products. "He ended up the wealthiest guy around, and if that was his goal, then he achieved it. But it's never been my goal, and I wonder, in the end, if it was his goal." Jobs said. "They've clearly fallen from their dominance. They've become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at the business side of things. They were never as ambitious product-wise as they should have been."

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