The books disappeared from Apple Stores last week after a month of increasingly contentious discussions about the book written by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon.
Young, who was a contributing editor for The Mercury News in the early 1980s, said he is dismayed by Apple's reaction to "iCon". He said it updates a biography of Jobs he wrote 20 years ago, called The Journey Is the Reward. The latest book retraces Jobs' early days as a computer maverick and chronicles his failure with NeXt. But it also documents his triumphant return to Apple, the successes of the iMac and iPod as well as his role in remaking animation through Pixar Animation Studios.
We haven't heard what exactly has Jobs so hot under the collar, but perhaps this breathless jacket copy gives the clue:
"Written with insider scoops and no-holds-barred style! Based on hundreds of highly unauthorized interviews with Jobs' nearest and dearest! New information on the acrimonious parting between Eisner and Jobs, the personal vendetta behind the return to Apple!"
Ok, the exclamation points are ours. But the rest is Wiley's.
