Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is getting longer.
As noticed by Setteb.it, the Steve Jobs hardcover now weighs in at 656 pages, up from 448 pages. Presumably at least some of this increased length is related to the inclusion of stories about Jobs' resignation from Apple, Inc. last month.
We confirmed the page number change with publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department, which also re-confirmed the book's November 21, 2011 release date.
Update: Isaacson has reported to Fortune that he always intended for the book to be at the newly-revealed length and that the earlier number was simply a placeholder.
"I was always aiming at this length. The original pubdate and page number info entered in the databases were just there as a placeholder."
There's no reason, he adds, that Steve Jobs should get fewer pages than Ben Franklin or Albert Einstein, the subjects of two previous Isaacson biographies.
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That's news to me. He did not resign from the company. He resigned as the company's CEO.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
I buy my DVDs/Blu-rays/CDs/Books from Amazon and I usually get them in less than a day for less than buying them in a brick & mortar store.
As for rentals, there's no value in renting scratch prone media. Just get it off my cable provider's VOD channel or if I'm buying, again, online is where it's at.
Books are about the last thing I'd call waste as far as use of paper goes. It's a very appropriate use of a renewable ressource (you do know paper is renewable right ?). It's silly to not have proper paper copies that can last ages, it's wasteful to throw money out the window on DRM infested media that probably won't survive your electronic's lifespan.