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 ..."

Comments

Here we go again...

[superpulpsicle]

Everytime Jobs regain power in the industry, he becomes an asshole again.

Re:The private life of public figures.

[fm6]

Jeez, learn to read. He said "Guess what--- Wal*Mart happens to sell that book. Even the Most Evil Corporation on the Planet (TM) hasn't stooped down to Apple's level." In other words, its WalMart he's calling evil.

And they are pretty bad. All big box stores cut ethical corners, but WalMart does it blatantly and consistently. And they get all self-righteous whenever anybody calls them on it, which makes things even worse.

But yeah, they don't punish publishers of books that criticize them. That would affect the bottom line -- and WalMart has the same relationship with the bottom line as that guy in Rome has with Jesus.

Jobs's action isn't wrong or unethical -- it's simply pathetic. He's misusing his position as Apple CEO to throw a snit -- and promote the very book his pissed about in the process. More proof that he's the second-most overrated technology CEO in the world.

Re:Apple's been getting somewhat evil lately.

[Ph33r th3 g(O)at]

Don't forget:

e) C&Ding anyone using gumball style buttons or transparency in a theme
f) Crippling thier DVD software to only work with their proprietary drives, and issuing a DMCA threat against a vendor that provided a patch to fix it
g) Charging $129 for point releases--Windows Update is free!

Re:Positive Light?!?

[10Ghz]

"iCon" is clearly a play on words on Apple's products. And the subtitle is nothing but praise for Jobs. The name of the book is not "I con", or "I, con". It's "iCon", pronounced in same way as "Icon". But hey, if yuou are too moronic to understand that, it's your problem and not mine.