Libor Kubín Steve Jobs fans can't wait for his official biography to be released on November 21st. In the Czech Republic, many of us do not speak English well enough to enjoy a book. That's why it is certainly pleasing news that we will be able to read the book in our mother tongue.
On the day of the world premiere, the publishing house will release the Czech version Threshold, in Slovakia this task was undertaken by Easton Books. The Czech edition will have approximately the same scope as the original. Due to the postponement of the release from next year to November, the publishers are unable to provide any further details.
Sample from the official Czech annotation of the book:
A book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, author of the famous biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, is an exclusive biography of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, written with his help and support.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over the course of two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred members of his family, friends, competitors, rivals and colleagues - this book discusses a life full of highs and lows and the piercingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur, whose passion for perfection and iron determination completely overturned six industries of human activity: personal computers, cartoons, music, telephones, tablet computers and digital printing.
At a time when companies around the world are trying to build a digital age economy, Jobs stands at the forefront as the ultimate icon of innovation and imagination put into action. He knew that the best way to create value in the 21st century was through the marriage of creativity and technology, so he built a company where disruptive ideas were combined with remarkable technical feats.
Although Jobs collaborated on the book, he did not seek any control over what had already been written, nor did he want the right to read the book before it was published. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, like getting my girlfriend in a different state at 23 and how I dealt with that," he admitted. "But I don't have any skeletons in the closet that can't come out."
Jobs spoke openly, sometimes even cruelly, about the people he worked with or against. Likewise, his friends, enemies, and colleagues developed an unvarnished view of the passions, demons, perfectionism, desires, skill, fiendishness, and obsession for leadership that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Jobs drove people around him to rage and despair. But his personality and products complemented each other so well, as he tried to do with Apple's hardware and software, as if they were part of some kind of integrated system. His story is therefore both instructive and cautionary, full of lessons about innovation, character, leadership and values.
Who is Walter Isaacson?
Executive director of the Aspen Institute, he was the head of CNN and editor-in-chief of the magazine Time. He wrote books Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life a Kissinger: A Biography (Kissinger: Biography). WITHfield with Evan Thomas he wrote The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC
nice. I look forward. I read "Inside Steve's brain" here a few years ago and that was great too :)
November 25th is my birthday and it comes out on November 21st. I guess I'll buy it :D.
November 21st was never so far away.
I will share it under the tree :D
I hope the book doesn't adopt Steve's pricing policy and doesn't cost a liter :-)
The price is not yet known. More details perhaps at the end of September.
It would be nice if it was available in e. form in the AppStore, such a popular price of 0,79e :) would be suitable.
There probably won't be a Czech version in electronic form (and certainly not at this price).
I will definitely read it in electronic form and sincerely hope that I will have someone to pay.
who translates it? and this is the official annotation? I don't like it very much :\\
Yes, official, from the Czech publisher.
What specifically don't you like?
I will buy immediately and ideally original in AJ :)
Hello, I'm looking forward to the book. It is a classic that after the death of an important person we learn more about him than during his lifetime. According to Jobs, he knew that the end of his life was near, and that is why he left this book behind.