Don't buy the 'Make Something Wonderful' Steve Jobs book on eBay, because the book is free [u]

The new Steve Jobs books is completely free, but copies of claimed special hardback editions are being sold on eBay for up to $25,000.

The book is a collection of writing by Steve Jobs, taken from speeches and emails, and compiled with clearly loving care by the Steve Jobs Archive. This is indeed a special book, but the Archive has explicitly released it for free, in order to have it be read as widely as possible.

Here, let us save you $25,000 — you can read it online on the Steve Jobs Archive, download an ebook version, or get it via Apple Books.

In every case, it costs you nothing.

But now eBay is has already got — at time of writing — seven sellers claiming to have the printed hardback edition. The edition is reportedly one that was printed without announcement and presented to some unknown number of Apple employees.

Yet to read the book, there isn't the remotest reason to pay, at present, from $100, all the way up to $25,000. It's not clear whether the $25,000 version includes shipping.

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Update: April 13, 12:27 ET Corrected to include that there is a special printed edition. AppleInsider regrets the error.

20 Comments

ziggie 5 comments · 7 Years

About 1 year ago

There is no hardback printed edition at all. All of these sellers are probably using print-on-demand services, assuming they aren't just going to scam the buyer out of the purchase price.

You sure? From what I read so far, Apple, Disney, and Pixar employees were given a hardback copy of the book. The hardback is just not sold to anyone. As for the $25,000, that's typical eBay hype price. There is one listed for $100 with 9 hrs left on bidding.

gourmet_poems 5 comments · 1 Year

Please do a little research before writing things like this. Physical copies were absolutely given to employees, they just won’t be sold to the public like indicated above.

Appleish 714 comments · 8 Years

Dunno about this, but I stopped buying things on eBay a long time ago. Based on my purchase history, about 90% of sellers are scammers of some sort.

mrstep 523 comments · 15 Years

gourmet_poems said:

Please do a little research before writing things like this. Physical copies were absolutely given to employees, they just won’t be sold to the public like indicated above.

No doubt. “There is no limited edition. There is no hardback printed edition at all.” That won’t age well.

chutzpah 392 comments · 1 Year

If it's a nice enough print it's perfectly fine to want a hardback copy for $100. Who cares if it's official? For $25,000 it better have some of Steve's ashes in the paper grain.