The October 5 death of Steve Jobs worked to the considerable advantage of authorized biographer Walter Isaacson. His 630-page book about the Apple Inc. co-founder, Steve Jobs, came out just 19 days later and became an outrageous best-seller. Despite its-late-in-the-year appearance, it’s the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com for all of 2011. According to Bookscan, 1 million printed copies already have been sold. Then there are the digital downloads and audio versions. The book’s alternating descriptions of genius action and boorish behavior makes for an irresistible read.
All told, it’s clearly a multi-million-dollar package for Isaacson and the culmination of a lot of effort. He writes in his book’s introduction that while he had decided at some point during 2009 to undertake the endeavor, he “put the project aside for a while” until a December 31, 2009, conversation with the dying Jobs. What ensued is what looks like nearly two years of full-time work with a mad rush toward the finish. Jobs stepped down as Apple’s head on August 24, 2011, just 42 days before his death at age 56 (leaving behind a $7 billion fortune).
But that’s not the only substantial gig that Isaacson, 59,
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