Steve Jobs may be gone, but he lives on in the hearts and minds of Apple fans everywhere. Nowhere was that more obvious than at the Apple retail store in the co-founder’s hometown of Palo Alto, where thousands of sticky note tributes were posted by passers-by -- and now we can all own some of those memories in a new non-profit book called iiii n4S.
While many of us were moved by the death of Steve Jobs, one man decided to do something with that emotion and the result is now available as a new book entitled iiii n 4S (1111 Notes for Steve). Author Philipp Stauffer was so moved by all of the sticky note tributes posted outside the Apple retail store in Palto Alto, California that he decided to collect some of them for posterity.
“As the number of notes grew, I became increasingly aware of the powerful messages that they held,” Stauffer explains. “The overall message in all this is profound, and sets a high benchmark for entrepreneurs, designers, CEOs and any other individuals who aspire to change the world. I wanted to make sure that at least a fraction of all these notes was captured and made available to everybody who did not have the chance to witness it personally. I randomly picked 1,111 notes to show, as well as a few overview shots, that hopefully do justice to this touching happening.”
The resulting 158-page book is being made available as an “early bird edition” on Blurb.com, an on-demand printing service which offers an iBooks-compatible electronic edition for $2.99, a softcover version for $44.44 and two different hardcover editions ($66.66 for dust jacket or $77.77 for ImageWrap). All profits from the book will go to College Track, the non-profit co-founded by Job’s wife, Laurene Powell, as well as to The V Foundation for Cancer Research.
For more information or to purchase a copy of iiii n 4S, head to the Blurb.com website; the current “early bird edition” will contain more content than the eventual final release, which the author hopes can “sell more books than Walter Isaacson and do good at the same time.” The author has also established a Facebook page for the project as well.
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