Igor Furnas's List: Steve Jobs

• "It was clear they didn't want us to publish the book," Susan Spilka, a spokeswoman at Wiley, said.

• "You know the old saying, 'There's no bad publicity,' " Mr. Sanchez said.

• Wiley, in response to increased interest in what it calls an "intimate look at a controversial leader," has decided to double the book's initial press run of nearly 50,000 and race it to stores on May 13, a few weeks ahead of its original publication date.
• Parts of the new book are a rehash of Mr. Young's 1986 book, "Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward," (Scott Foresman & Company).
• Written without access to Mr. Jobs or people close to him, the book has little new information and will disappoint readers hungry for fresh insights into Mr. Jobs.
• One chapter in the uncorrected proof is titled "iPod, iTune, Therefore I Con." To introduce the section that discusses Mr. Jobs's cancer, they write, "Even on Mount Olympus, the gods of Greek legend were not invulnerable."
• the aura of fear Steve carried with him like a dark cloud," adding, "You didn't want to be called in front of him to do a product presentation because he might decide to lop off the product, and you with it."
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• Jobs may be a celebrity CEO, but he doesn’t jump out of airplanes or traipse around Africa with bundles of cash. He is always in character and always on message, so much so that when late-night TV parodies him, he’s invariably rolling out some new iProduct . Jobs gets called mercurial, egomaniacal, a micromanager. If that sounds a little like a CEO doing his job, maybe that’s because he is—and a mighty fine one.

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• Why him? Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression -- and his own serious health problems.