Publisher Wiley's Books Pulled from Apple Stores

getling writes "Looks like Steve Jobs is almost as unhappy about personal details being publicized as he is with Mac secrets. The book publisher Wiley, who is releasing a new unauthorized biography of Jobs has had its entire line of books banned from Apple stores as a result of their unhappiness with the content of the book. Wiley, publisher of the popular Dummies series of books, as well as the Bible series, is quite surprised, due to the fact that they view the book to show Jobs in a largely positive light ..."

Rosebud!

[SYFer]

"That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give."

Silly me

[Anonymous Coward]

And I thought the Book of Jobs was all about putting up with suffering without complaint.

Book of Job? .. Oops.

Good thing they didn't criticize a politican

[davidwr]

They'd have all their books banned from the Library of Congress.

I wonder if that's what Sen. Trist meant by "Nuclear Option"?

Jobs replies

[commodoresloat]

Mr. Jobs, meet Mr. Murphy. He also has a law you should know about.

Mr. Murphy, meet the Apple Legal Department. They know a thing or two about interpreting the law to my advantage.

You don't understand

[commodoresloat]

It's different when Apple pulls something like this.

It's much.... snappier.

Icon or iCon...

[__aaclcg7560]

So does the title "iCon" supposed be a stylish version of the word icon or does it represent a certain attitude: "I conned you into buying a nice OS on some very expensive hardware to make me a happy SOB"? For some reason, I keep thinking "iCon" might be a better title for a Martha Stewart book.

Re:If he doesn't like the spotlight

[suyashs]

I heard he refuses to install Tiger and insists on running Mac OS X 10.3.9...

Re:The private life of public figures.

[tomhudson]

for a publisher of tech manuals to start putting out this kind of celebrity drivel is bad form

As long as O'Reilly doesn't start doing that shit ... I really don't want to read "Steve Jobs in a Nutshell" or "The Steve Jobs Cookbook".

Re:Irony...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you provide a link? I can't seem to find it.

Gee, did you sprain something looking? It's the first Google hit for "hope keynote 2004 mp3"

I see the new titles already

[EverDense]

Pissing off Major IT Corporations for Dummies. Character Assassination for Dummies. Making Bad Business Decisions for Dummies.

I Love My Mac, But...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm glad I don't work at Apple!

Re:Jobs replies

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple Legal Department, meet Common Sense, I don't belive you two have met before...

Re:Steve Jobs & Apple aren't synonymous

[fname]

Wait a second, you can't concede the point. This is Slashdot, dammit. If people start conceding points the whole system could come crashing down!

Flames! Trolls! Unspported facts! That's what Slashdot is about, not mature responses like conceding points; the system isn't set up to handle that!

Re:referrer in amazon link?

[NanoGator]

"The vast majority of visitors to this site fully support firefox, which lets you "hurt" this site by supporting the adblock extension."

Leech.

A Better Approach ...

[rewinn]

... would have been for Jobs to have a ghost-writer crank out "Why Wiley's Book Is Stupid" and sell it next to the book he hates.

Re:Balanced..

[Stormwatch]

- Apple and OSX rules
- MS are evil and Windows sux. but Xbox rules
- Sony are evil and PS2 is crap.

Yes, the aforementioned points are correct.

Jobs. you just LOST a customer!

[Reservoir Penguin]

This kinda story made me run and install Debian on my PowerBook. The recent stories really convinced me that its insane to trust my data to proprietary vendors especailly the ones run by such essentric characters as Steve and Larry.

Re:Maybe it's the "iCon" title

[Mancat]

It just proves that Apple has caused the public to become desensitized to the letter "i."

Re:The private life of public figures.

[fm6]

He said that Apple did something that WalMart wouldn't do. That's not the same as saying that Apple is more evil than WalMart. By that logic, I'm more evil than Hitler, because he was kind to children, and I'm always mean to them.

Re:Selling 30 cent parts for $6

[Dogtanian]

When I pay a buck for a 24 oz. Coke in a cup at the local convenience store I know their cost was about three cents, and two of those were for the cup.

That's right. Most store owners don't bother paying Monsanto, even though that company put the effort into genetically engineering the trees that stores, land and electricity grow on.

Those scum... anyway, some people would say they were stupid to risk something illegal like that when money has grown on trees since biblical times.

Unfortunately, the only money that grows on trees is the North Korean Peso, and you need three barrowfuls of them for your cup of Coke.

Re:referrer in amazon link?

[kyojin the clown]

blimey, i amazed you have any money to actually buy things with. i mean, you can't possibly have time for a job, with all the time you must spend hiding your identity from your supermarket.

Slashdot banned!!

[erroneus]

Thanks mister "Insightful!" Your comments probably just got Slashdot banned from all of Apple's computer networks.

Ask and you shall recieve;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

> Flames! Trolls! Unspported facts! That's what
> Slashdot is about, not mature responses like
> conceding points; the system isn't set up to
> handle that!

You're just saying that because you believe that VI is better than Emacs, GNU/Gentoo/Hurd is better than Fedora and Debian combined, GNUstep is better than KDE, X-window sucks an needs to be replaced by DirectX/framebuffer, and Mono is better than Java.

It's a proven fact, backed by a ton of solid anecdotal evidence and vague references to the Bible and Scientology that you're wrong.

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This just in...

[Anita Coney]

Today Steven Jobs has filed a temporary restraining order against his mother. The TRO claims that Jobs' mother kept talking about her son to friends and family, showed embarrassing pictures of him as a kid, and praised him for his success.

A spokesperson for Apple was quoted as saying, "Jobs' mom was always prone to talk about how proud she is of her son, but when she showed the friends in her knitting circle a picture of Steve when he was two years old using the toilet for the first time, her actions went from merely annoying to criminal."

This current action from Jobs has affected others in his family too. His wife of 14 years, Laurene Powell, has had her voice box surgically removed to avoid any chance of her offending her husband. Furthermore, his two children have been killed for talking about their dad in class.

More news on this story as it develops.

Re:Slashdot banned!!

[BandwidthHog]

Thanks mister "Insightful!" Your comments probably just got Slashdot banned from all of Apple's computer networks.

Good!

That oughta get 10.5 out the door a few weeks faster.

Re:Funny you should mention this

[As Seen On TV]

My big problem with iPhoto is the way it insists on moving all the JPEGs around and naming them according to its own whims.

That's iPhoto's purpose in life. Your objection is like saying, "My big problem with Excel is the way it adds all the numbers together."

Just out of my own curiosity ... are you also one of those guys who complains that iTunes organizes your music for you? I ask because those guys are impossible for me to understand. We rolled out a product that was basically the holy grail of music management, and they complained that it managed their music for them. They insisted that they would rather name and sort each of 20,000 tiny files themselves, with all the obsessive focus of an autistic kid counting paper clips. It was freaky.