Steve Jobs biography ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ to hit bookstores, iPads in 2012

Steve Jobs, Apple’s notoriously private CEO, has authorized a biography on his life called “iSteve: The Book of Jobs.”

The “iSteve” book will hits stores in early 2012 — releasing on Day 1 both in bookstores and as an iBook for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices, said Tracy Guest, a spokeswoman at Simon Schuster, which is handling publishing.

The book is being written by Walter Isaacson, the president of the Aspen Institute, a think tank in Washington.

Isaacson is a former executive at Time and CNN and has written the bestselling biographies “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” and “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”

Jobs has been cooperating with Isaacson on the book since 2009. The writer has interviewed the CEO and his family members as well as key figures at Apple and its competitors.

“This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world’s greatest innovators,” Jonathan Karp, publisher

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