Steve Jobs Autobiography, The Best Book of the Year

steve jobs biography proved to be the top selling book in the US. Quantity amounting to 379,000 sale of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was such a great hit in only first week, proved itself to be the most selling book in the country.

Steve job was like the apple of eye for his lovers and they wrote so many books only to describe the great personality of Steve job. The book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” also achieved the biggest week sales for any book in the U.S. for almost a year.

Published by Simon & Schuster on October 24, the book outsold the next bestselling book of the week, John Grisham’s “The Litigators,” by more than three to one. After only six days of sales, the Jobs biography is already the 18th-bestselling book of the year, according to BookScan’s figures.

Simon & Schuster’s decision to move up the book’s publication by a month after Jobs’ death October 5 appears to have paid off. Fueled by intense interest in the late tech visionary’s life and career, the biography arrived on a wave of publicity, including appearances by Isaacson. Isaacson on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

The jobs 55 years of life has been traced in 656-page book, from his hippie youth and co-founding of Apple in his parents’ Silicon Valley garage to his ouster from the company, triumphant return 11 years later and remarkable successes in the past decade with the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

The book has already produced plenty of headlines, including how Jobs regretted waiting too long after his cancer diagnosis to get surgery that might have saved him.

It retails for $35, although many sellers are pricing it closer to $20