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'Steve Jobs' is the top-selling book of 2011 on Amazon

Walter Isaacson's biography of the recently deceased Steve Jobs rocketed to the top of Amazon's best-selling book list and stayed there.

The book was released in late October following the death of the former CEO and founder of Apple.



Amazon's list includes digital and print copies.

Perhaps more notably were the books that came in 4th and 9th, each of which was published through Amazon's excellent Kindle Direct Publishing and therefore did not have print editions.

Full list (via LAT):

1. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson

2. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey

3. "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard

4. "The Mill River Recluse" by Darcie Chan

5. "In the Garden of the Beasts" by Erik Larson

6. "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin

7. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain

8. "The Litigators" by John Grisham

9. "The Abbey" by Chris Culver

10. "Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)" by Christopher Paolini

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 12 Dec 2011 22:00

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• 10 comments

• Hyasuma

  lame
  

  Being nice always has its own consequences

  12.12.2011 23:47 #1

• plutonash

  It's a great read and extremely well written. The pace is a good speed. Never really any boring parts so far. But I'm not surprised his biography could probably grab any reader.
  

  "Cable thief is a victimless crime."

  12.12.2011 23:58 #2

• LordRuss

  Bah, humbug...
  

  http://onlyinrussellsworld.blogspot.com

  13.12.2011 00:34 #3

• KillerBug

  "You are holding it wrong"...that is all I need to read about Steve Jobs.
  

  
  

  13.12.2011 03:53 #4

• dab0ne

  OK, I know he's dead but who poses for a picture like that... Honestly?
  

  13.12.2011 05:51 #5

• LordRuss

  Originally posted by dab0ne: OK, I know he's dead but who poses for a picture like that... Honestly? Given my propensity to rant like Lee Ermey, three pages at a time & it being the holidays I respectfully decline to answer at this time.
  

  http://onlyinrussellsworld.blogspot.com

  13.12.2011 11:51 #6

• molsen

  I am not at all surprised. Seeing all the media hype in the US. Did not read it yet. I might get around to it.

  13.12.2011 12:48 #7

• hearme0

  Yeah.......nothing like reading about the person whom is noted as the "Einstein of the 21st century". What crap. He had a team of R&D'ers. Not like he invented anything except a few concepts from the beginning. Perhaps people will say that Jobs wrote this book in his afterlife and not by the apparent author. Phhooooey!
  
  Jobs is dead, Apple is played out and boring and both should be put to rest.

  13.12.2011 14:06 #8

• KillerBug

  Originally posted by dab0ne: OK, I know he's dead but who poses for a picture like that... Honestly? A man with a chin-butt?
  

  
  

  14.12.2011 04:21 #9

• Hyasuma

  This is what I would say Quote:If you are writing a story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen basically someone else wrote about your life and I can hardly care.
  
  So Steve, I wish you say hi to the devil, greed kills.
  

  Being nice always has its own consequences

  14.12.2011 09:51 #10