Washington, Oct 7 (ANI): Steve Jobs had opened up to his biographer before his death, saying he wanted to leave a documentary record so that his children would have a better understanding about him.
"I wanted my kids to know me," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, who is the author of an authorized biography of Apple's co-founder, titled "Steve Jobs," CBS News reports.
When Isaacson asked Jobs why he agreed to reveal so much in a book, he said: "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did," Jobs answered, referring to his children.
Meanwhile, pre-orders of the biography pushed the book high on best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of Jobs' death.
Publisher Simon and Schuster has announced on Thursday that the release date of the book has been moved up from November 21 to October 24. By today, Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" was No. 1 on Amazon.com and No. 3 on Barnes and Noble.com. The book also tops Apple's own list: the iTunes books best-seller list, the report said.
Isaacson said Jobs approached him in 2004 with a request to write his biography just before undergoing his first surgery for pancreatic cancer.
"He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of TIME or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much," he added.
Steven P. Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56. He was suffering from had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer. (ANI)
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