Although Nielsen is not expected to release official book sales figures for more than a week, "Steve Jobs" has rocketed to the No. 1 spot on the Kindle bestseller list, the Nook bestseller list and Apple's iBook store chart overnight.
The authorized biography penned by Walter Isaacson, debuted in book stores on Monday, both the hardcover and e-book versions are already sitting at the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com. According to industry analysts you can expect them to stay there for a long time to come.
"The way things are trending, it could very likely be our top-selling book of the year," Amazon spokeswoman Brittany Turner told Reuters.
"On average 50 percent of bestsellers are digital and in some cases that can go as high as 70 percent," said James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research. "It's very likely for the next six months this book will outperform the physical version."
Reports revealed that it took Isaacson two years to write the book, as the biographer drew upon more than 40 exclusive interviews with Jobs including the final session which took place one week before his death on October 5.
"Another publishing source who did not want to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic believes the Jobs bio had pretty much been completed when Simon & Schuster announced the publication back in the spring." Reuters reports.
Isaacson, who was the former CNN chairman and managing editor of Time magazine, has been out on a whirlwind publicity tour, appearing on both CBS' "60 Minutes" and NPR's "Fresh Air."
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