The story of the life of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is for sale in Kazakhstan.

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, is Amazon’s top grossing book of the year – in both “print and Kindle editions combined” said The News. The book went on sale on October 24th, less than 3 weeks after Jobs’ death, and Business Press Network said that “In less than 2 months on the market, the book had become the online retailer’s best selling title of 2011.”

About this biography being sold in Kazakhstan, on December 15th, Central Asian News said:

“About 40 copies of the publication were sold out for the first few hours of sales. The applications for purchasing of the book come every 20 minutes. Bestseller is available as in the online store as in the non-virtual boutique in Astana, which was opened in September 2011.”

Tengerinews.kz said: “Amazon did not release exact sales figures for the titles [top listed books of the year]”. Since the book is now available in Kazakhstan – here’s to wondering how much of a dent the Jobs biographies purchased in this Central Asian state put in the over all sum of books sold and profits made, in 2011.

Beyond the biography, but still on topic of this Apple talk – one can’t help but wonder how many Kazakhstanis are currently using Jobs’ iPhones and iPads? And what the late computer genius would think of technology in Kazakhstan today and what is to be anticipated for 2012 – Internet penetration, censorship and circumvention, available apps, number of downloaded songs and socially networked Kazakh techies?

Here’s to hoping that the selling of Isaacson’s book in Kazakhstan, and the reading of its pages, inspires tech savvy Kazakhs and the nation’s entrepreneurs. And also that hopefully neighboring Central Asian countries – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan – will soon have the book for sale, if they don’t already.