Authorised Steve Jobs biography due 2012

US book publisher Simon & Schuster has officially announced that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published early next year.

Unfortunately no further details were released about the book, other than the fact that Steve Jobs is participating in its creation.

In March it was reported that Isaacson had spent the last 12 months interviewing more than 100 people in the Apple CEO’s past and present, both inside and outside the company.

One executive said to be interviewed for the official biography is Oracle’s Larry Ellison.