his death on October 5, 2011, TIME published a commemorative issue on October 8, 2011. The issue's cover featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, in which he is sitting in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone in January 1984 and is featured on the back cover of Steve Jobs. The issue marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the cover of Time. The issue included a photographic essay by Diana Walker, a retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's essay served as a preview of Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching the book to him. Bloomberg Businessweek also released a commemorative issue of its magazine remembering the life of Jobs. The cover of the magazine features Apple-like simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of birth and death. In tribute to Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative issue, Isaacson's essay served as a preview of Steve Jobs. Fortune featured an exclusive extract of the biography on October 24, 2011, focusing on the "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Bill Gates. Awards and honors Even after a late release that year, the book became Amazon's #1 seller for 2011. 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, shortlist 2011 The New York Times bestseller 2011 Christian Science Monitor Best Book, nonfiction 2011 Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year See also 2011 in literature Apple Inc. development history References External links Presentation by Isaacson on Steve Jobs, December 13, 2011, C-SPAN Presentation by Isaacson on Steve Jobs, September 22, 2012, C-SPAN 2011 non-fiction books American history books Books about Steve Jobs Biographies adapted into films English-language books Simon & Schuster books American biographies