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If all the copies of "Steve Jobs," Walter Isaacson's biography of the late Apple CEO, were stacked, the pile would be taller than Mt. Everest. In the first week of sale alone, Isaacson's tome flew off retailers' shelves, selling more than 379,000 copies. Amazon concluded at the end of December that all the copies of that 630-page volume would stack higher than the world's tallest mountain. Ironically, when interviewed by The New York Times in 2008, Jobs, in predicting that Amazon's Kindle e-reader would fail, surmised: "People don't read anymore," and "Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year." Guess we know which book they're reading. And for those who aren't reading at all, Aaron Sorkin is considering converting the book to a movie. Jobs' life after death continues to reach new heights.
Source: WebProNews (webpronews.com)