It’s a testament to Steve Jobs’ famous “reality distortion field” that I did not get to finish his biography on my Kindle. Admittedly, it was a blasphemous deed from the very start, but it was Jobs’ decision that Apple would not come up with a proper electronic-ink e-book reader. He probably wasn’t much of a reader himself, if he thought that you can read books on an LCD screen. Amazon’s Kindle was yet another technological revolution that he failed to acknowledge, caught as he was squeezing reality into his narrow field of view:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is”, he said upon the launch of the first Kindle, “the fact is that people don’t read anymore.”
Now, isn’t that ironic? The nearly 600 pages biography of the man who pronounced reading dead has been the number one best seller in its first week of publication and, one month later, is one of the best selling titles of the year.
