iCon, uCon, we all Con!
To anyone who hasn't noticed, Steve Jobs is the re-discovered 'new cool' when it comes to high tech personalities.
Of course that means there's money to be made in publishing articles and books about him personally. Recently, a new biographical book titled iCon has been launched amid controversy. Form my understanding, the main controversy has been about the title - Steve didn't like it, John Wiley & Sons (publishers) refused to change it - Apple removed all Wiley published books from the shelves of their stores - Wiley got more publicity than it could have hoped for. Nothing too new about that sequence of events, but Alan Deutschman, the author of another recent biography of Jobs, is claiming that vast swathes of iCon seem to come straight from his work. Now biographies are necessarily going to be similar - they are semi-factual representations of the same event - but Deutschman points to almost sentance by sentance similarities. Whoever is on the con, the article itself is interesting: The tight fist clenched around Apple PS: Two Steve Jobs related posts in a row - that's some kind of blog record! 04:38 PM, 23 May 2005 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0) 
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