Steve Jobs biography release moves up to Oct. 24
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Xinhua, October 7, 2011
U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday it will advance the release date of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs'only official biography to Oct. 24.
It is the second time that the publisher has moved up the publication date of "Steve Jobs." In August, the biography was scheduled to come out on Nov. 21, a big leap from the previously announced March 6, 2012.
Preorder sales of the book have been skyrocketing overnight after the tech giant died at the age of 56 on Wednesday. The book jumped from No. 424 to No. 1 on Amazon's overall best sellers ranking and is also No. 4 at bookseller Barnes & Noble.
The book is highly anticipated as it is the only biography that has been approved by Jobs and granted with his full cooperation. It is written by former managing editor of Time magazine Walter Issacson who has written popular biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Issacson last interviewed Jobs about four weeks ago, right before, and right after he resigned as the CEO of Apple. Jobs indicated at that time that he knew he was going to die soon. The scene will appear at the end of the book.
