I’m pleased to formally introduce my new book on Apple’s head designer, Sir Jonathan Ive — Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products.
Published by Penguin Portfolio on November 14, it’s the first full-length biography of the worlds’ most-celebrated designer.
I’m super psyched about it. It turned out great. I managed to talk to a bunch of inside sources, who reveal some of Apple’s most guarded secrets about how the company really works.
Please check out the book mini-site here.
Special Pre-Order Bonus!
The book will be in stores on November 14. If you pre-order the book from Amazon and forward me the receipt, I’ll send you a link to a secret private video.
The video’s a bit cheeky — which is why it’s unlisted — but I think you’ll get a huge kick out of it. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself.
Just pre-order the book and forward the email receipt from Amazon.com to [email protected]. You’ll get an automatic response with a link to the unlisted video.
Please share your reaction on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #jonyive.
Enjoy!
Here’s the Amazon US link: Jony Ive book pre-order.
And here’s the Amazon UK link: Jony Ive book pre-order.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
8 responses to “Pre-Order Jonathan Ive Book, Get Sneak Peek At Secret Video”
Congrats! I’ll make sure my bookstore carries this one. If you’re looking for an unbiased book review please let me know as well.
It would be better if the editorial reviews on Amazon’s page for this book make references to this book or Jony, and not Steve, as they do? They make it sound as if this book is about Steve, and not Jony.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Those searching for a telling portrait of Jobs’s management style and its impact on Apple will not be left wanting.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A rich, essential read for [fans] to get inside Jobs’s head and discover what makes Apple insanely great.”
—USA Today
“Enjoyable, well-written, very informative, and, most important, up to date . . . a unique approach, about [Jobs], from someone as steeped in Apple’s culture and history as Kahney.”
—CNet
“A detailed, concept-oriented, blow-by-blow look at Apple’s CEO and what makes him tick.”
—Macworld
“A compelling sketch of the elitist, churlish visionary.”
—U.S. News & World Report
Does the Special Pre-Order Bonus available for the Kindle edition ?
@Othman_Safarini
Yeah, sure, just send a note to [email protected]
@dcj001
Yeah, I know it’s a bit confusing. But it’s because there are no reviews for the Jony Ive book yet. The publisher will swap in quotes about the new book as soon as they are published. The book still isn’t out for more than a week. This is standard practice, btw: all publishers do this.
Hi Leander, are you releasing an audiobook version at the same time/near future?
It’s a bit confusing. On UK Amazon no link for Hardcover – paperback 13 pounds, but in US Hardcover 17$ ..what the hell…
Got the email with the link to the secret video but YouTube tells me that “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Apple Inc.”.