Steve Jobs book moved up four months, nothing to do with his illness
The long-awaited and heavily-hyped biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on sick leave since January, has been moved up four months.
But it has nothing to do with his illness. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced simply that "the book was finished and deemed ready to publish."
The author, best-selling writer Walter Isaacson, denied any suggestion that the moved-up date was linked to Jobs' health or his battle with pancreatic cancer.
"It's actually not related to any decline," Isaacson wrote in an email to Fortune magazine. "I turned most of the book in this past June. It's now all done and edited.
"The March 2012 date (or whatever date it was) was never a deeply considered pub date. Like the original cover design, it came about because the publisher wanted to put something in the database last spring."
Jobs is certainly a corporate superstar. "Steve Jobs: A Biography" is said to be "no holds barred".
The book-jacket says: "Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- this book chronicles the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.''
The book's early release could simply be that the publisher wants to get the book out to capture the Christmas rush.
Jobs went on a medical leave from Apple in January but has made a number of high-profile appearances since then, "each time Apple pulls a new gizmo out of its sleeve," as Apple;s local paper, the Mercury News put it. The book could become Apple's latest blockbuster, the paper predicted. .