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April 27, 2005

Steve Jobs redesigns free speech

Having already given us the iGag - a beautifully engineered device to force online journalists to rat on their contacts - it seems that Steve Jobs has now come up with the iBookBurner.

Clearly, Jobs wasn't at all impressed with the publication of a book called iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, possibly because it offers "an unflinching account of the rise, fall and rebirth" of Apple's born-again CEO.

Jobs responded by ordering the removal of all offending publisher John Wiley and Son's books from every Apple store. The move is likely to hurt authors of other titles much more than iCon authors, journalist Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon.

The book might have been passed over by readers had it not been drawn to their attention by the ban. We could see it being re-issued with a new title: iCon: The Book Steve Jobs Doesn't Want You To Read.

Posted by cw at April 27, 2005 08:16 AM

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