Jobs Bio Could Set New Sales Records

Despite the fact that it doesn't hit book stores for 3 days, Jobs, the approved biography by former Time controlling editor Walter Isaacson, is poised being the best-selling book of 2011. Since Apple founder Jobs died on March. 5, presales from the book have skyrocketed. It's a triple No. 1 -- topping the iTunes books, Amazon . com, and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists. Within the first couple of hrs after Jobs' dying it leaped 42,000 percent on Amazon . com, going from 424 to No. 1.our editor recommendsSteve Jobs' Dying Prompts His Biography Release To Become Moved With a MonthSony Pictures in Discussions for Privileges to Jobs BiographySteve Jobs' Biography Sales Jump 42,000 Percent Upon Dying Jobs Dies at 56Related Subjects•Steve Jobs Writer Simon & Schuster seems poised to interrupt the its opening day sales record, set on This summer 12 whenever a Stolen Existence, it by Jaycee Dugard about her 18 years in captivity, offered 175,000 copies, including 100,000 e-books. Sales of Jobs may also exceed the sales of the greatest-selling non-fiction book of 2010. Decision Points, George W. Bush's memoir of his presidential years, offered 2.six million print copies and 307,000 digital copies this year. With Jobs No. 1 on Apple's digital book list, No. 2 on Amazon . com, with no. 9 on Barnes & Noble's Nook list, it will easily exceed digital sales of Decision Points. Apple's iTunes book shop also seems to become a beneficiary of Jobs dying. PHOTOS: Jobs: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's Career Apple's digital book shop has lagged behind its rivals. Amazon . com, for instance, provides a Kindle application for that iPad that enables customers to see their e-books across multiple products, cutting into the requirement for iTunes customers to consider the later-to-the-market iBooks format. However the strong sales of Jobs around the Apple book shop in accordance with the Kindle and Nook indicates that Apple is drawing new clients who decide to purchase Jobs' biography at their own company's book shop. In reaction towards the public interest, Simon & Schuster advanced the publication date from November. 21 to March. 24. The writer had already increased the date once before. On August. 15, nine days before Jobs introduced he was walking lower as Boss, the organization knocked the date from March 6, 2012 to November. 21. Additionally, it transformed the title in the awkward iSteve: It of Jobs up to the more straightforward Jobs: A Biography. PHOTOS: Recalling Jobs Beyond announcing the brand new publication date, Simon & Schuster didn't provide any extra particulars concerning the release, including how big the first print run or sales anticipation. Simon & Schuster is decided to avoid early copies from the book from seeping out. One posting insider known as the efforts to embargo copies of Jobs just before publication the smallest ever observed in posting. A business representative didn't react to a request to acquire more information. Isaacson's book agent Binky Urban also didn't react to a request a comment. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Time magazine, which bought "first serial" privileges -- the exclusive to a pre-publication excerpt -- rushed to incorporate an excerpt in the March. 17 problem featuring Jobs around the cover. Time's sister publication, Fortune, will operate a publish-publication second serial excerpt. Other guides are apparently thinking about rarely-offered third serial privileges. Related Subjects George W. Rose bush Jobs