Official Steve Jobs biography now available for pre-order on Amazon

The official biography of Steve Jobs is now available for pre-order on Amazon. iSteve: The Book of Jobs will be available in hardcover for US$18.00 and as a Kindle edition for $14.99. We first told you of the authorized Steve Jobs biography back in February 2010. The book is written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time Magazine. Isaacson is also known for his biographies on Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.

The book will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 6, 2012 and is set to be 448 pages. From the Amazon product description: "From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation."

The book is sure to be an international bestseller and at the time of this writing is currently ranked #28 in Amazon's Top 100 books and #1 in three separate categories: Technology, Biography & History, and Business.