Steve Jobs Releases Taiwanese Self-Help Book For Teenagers Translated By Dead Avant Garde Composer [Humor]

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Steve Jobs Releases Taiwanese Self-Help Book For Teenagers Translated By Dead Avant Garde Composer [Humor]ShareTweet By John Brownlee (7:51 am, Aug. 19, 2011)

Can’t wait to get your hands on Steve Jobs official biography later this year? How about biding your time with a tome of wisdom handed down from The Man himself? Then Steve Jobs Gives 11 Advices To Teenager! by Steve Jobs might be just the book for you!

Granted, it’s a little hard to find in America. You’ll have to pay $8 for it online and wait for it to ship to you from Taiwan. Nor is it exactly clear what “11 advices” Mr. Jobs gave, to which teenager (singular), and upon which occasion.

Even so, Steve Jobs Gives 11 Advices To Teenager! is a rousing success in Taiwan, where it rocketed to a number five position on the Taiwanese Best Seller Charts. And if that’s not enough to recommend it, the entire book was translated by the famous avant garde composer John Cage, who is apparently alive and well in Taipei! Whats a wonderful choice for a man to translate Jobs! After all, they’re both Buddhists!

[via MIC Gadget]

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http://twitter.com/TJBooyzen Tyron Booyzen

Wait is this real?

Anonymous

Right next to Warren Buffet’s “Investments and Shizzle”

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=697688549 Scott McKim

I’ll put it right next to my copy of “Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler.”

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OF2DAPVD7XVRQK6SWK6MCJD52U spiderman

actually the book was first published in China, and the Chinese published then repacked and sold it in Taiwan.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OF2DAPVD7XVRQK6SWK6MCJD52U spiderman

actually the book was first published in China, and the Chinese published then repacked and sold it in Taiwan.

Anonymous

Oh wonderful a book concerning wisdom from Jobsy. What kind of wisdom could this idiot possibly pass on to Asian youth? I highly doubt there’s any self respecting Asian kids out there with scruples who are interested in knowing how to financially enslave other Asian’s people for a quick buck.

Anonymous

The Taiwanese just can’t seem to get enough of Steve Job, either inperson or in the doppelganger department. Readers will remembermy scoopearlier this year about a TV ad campaign in Taiwan that used anAmerican expat named Brook Hall to play Jobs in a very convincing”press conference” ata Hsinchu Science Park setting. [LINK]
Now, some disreputable punters in Taipei have gone even further bypublishing a bestseller in Chinese Mandarin — and purported to be a”translation” of an Amazon besteller from the USA — titled, getthis, “Steve Paul Jobs’s Eleven Pieces of Advice for Young PeopleToday.”  The alleged author is a chap named “John Cage”, who of coursedoes not exist, and the publishersare keeping mum about who the actual “ghostwriter” is and even who thereal publisher is. It’s Ghost Month in Taiwan now, a month-longreligious ritiual in which the ghosts ofall ancestors come back to Earth to haunt the island nation and playhavoc with the normal rules of daily life, so it’s fitting the a fakeJobs book has surfaced now.
It’s reached Number 5 on the financial books bestseller lists here,and has reportedly taken in huge amounts of naive readers’ cash overthe past few months. John Cage, as readersfamiliar with modern music will know, was the name of a very eccentricand creative New York composer, and he certainly never wrote the bookon Jobs.
About the only thing the fake book got right was that Jobs’ middle name is Paul.
The book was purportedly e translated into Chinese from its originalEnglish version, although no one can trace the original source of thebook or find its U.S. counterparton Amazon. Do you see a ghost here? It’s definitely a ghost-writtenpiece of deceit written on a ghostly dare. The police are nowinvestigating the case, and if thepublisher is found guilty of deceiving the public, he could be in forsome ghostly jail time. Stay tuned. This story has legs, as all “fakeSteve Jobs” things seem to have.
The alleged author of the book, “John Cage”, is said by the publishersto be “a graduate from Stanford University and who previously servedas editor in chief at mass-circulation economic and financialmagazines.” Ghostly.
In addition, nowhere in the entire book does it say when and whereJobs offered his sharp-witted ”advice” for young people, as no datesor sources are cited.
Enter Taiwan’s version of Sherlock Holmes. An enterprising reporter inTaipei was able to  trace the street address of the publisher of thebook, and when he went there he found — guess what? — acomputer store. The store’s owner said the book was legit and allcopyright protections were in order and that the truth of the entirematter will be revealed next month, when Ghost Month is over.
Meanwhile, over 10,000 copies fo the book have been sold and wholelegion of young Jobs fans have read a book that he never wrote.Ghostly.

Anonymous

confirm? – actually the book was first published in China, and the Chinese published then repacked and sold it in Taiwan.

Anonymous

slavery means you can’t quit idiot …

Anonymous

Fake Steve Jobs Biography Already Available In China
  Text Size PrintE-mailReprintsBy TechCrunch.com, Published: August 20

Anonymous

Hey stupid iTard fuckhead learn to read. Since you’re to busy sticking your nose up Jobsy’s asshole I’ll have to spoon feed you.

Quote:
to financially enslave other Asian people for a quick buck.

Financially enslaved means you can’t afford to quit. Get it now you ignorant iTard?

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