'Steve Jobs' tops Amazon's list of 10 best-selling books of 2011

Amazon.com on Monday announced its best-selling books of the year, and -- no surprise -- Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple visionary Steve Jobs landed in the No. 1 spot.

The online retail giant's list combined its sales of print and Kindle editions and took into account only paid copies. Books first published before 2011 were excluded.
Amazon noted that two books -- "The Mill River Recluse" by Darcie Chan (#4) and "The Abbey" by Chris Culver (#9) -- were published by Kindle Direct Publishing and made the top 10 based solely on Kindle sales.

"Steve Jobs" topped the list even though it was published just two months ago. Sales of the book "have been phenomenal in both formats," said Chris Schluep, senior ... LAT