Steve Jobs, the biography by Walter Isaacson, has just become the best selling book on Amazon for 2011. This is a pretty remarkable feat, considering its early October release. It's been available to purchase for only two months. It had strong sales when it was first offered as a pre-order on Amazon, but surged with a 40,000% increase in sales following the death of Jobs.

Without Steve Jobs, there would be no Pixar today as we know it. Though, he originally had a different vision of Pixar (as a computer hardware company) when he first purchased it from George Lucas in the 80's, he patiently poured millions of dollars into Pixar for several years of unprofitable business and learned to see the potential of computer animation. He served for many years as CEO of Pixar until Disney bought the company in 2006.

Thanks to Mac Rumors for breaking the story.