Steve Jobs biography becomes bestseller in US

SAN FRANCISCO. November 3. KAZINFORM "Steve Jobs," the only authorized biography of the Apple co-founder, has sold around 379, 000 copies in the United States in its first week of publication, making it one of the best selling titles this year; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

Although not a record-breaker, the biography still outsold the next bestselling book of the week by three times, already making it the 18th bestselling book of the year in the US, according to numbers from Nielsen BookScan via thebookseller.com.

The book also scored the biggest week of sales for any book in the US since last November.

According to the data, the book also soared to the top of the bestseller charts in Britain.

Nielsen BookScan, a data provider for the book publishing industry, uses point-of-sale data from some 12,000 retail locations across the US as well as online and e-book retailers; Kazinform cites China Daily.

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