Steve Jobs‘ temper tantrum against Wiley & Sons for its forthcoming bio iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, by Jeffrey Young, “has had two sure-fire results,” says Jim Milliot in a Publishers Weekly story (not available as a free link), “Wiley has moved up the pub date of iCon from to June to May 13, and the print run has been doubled to close to six figures..” In addition, since being banned in Jobs’ Apple stores, the book has shot up the Amazon bestseller list, and Young and Wiley execs “have been swamped with media requests.” Plus, as noted in yesterday’s MobyLives news digest, Wiley continues to get widespread admiration for standing up to Apple and standing behind its book. But the company hasn’t always been considered so virtuous, according to a SF Weekly report from last summer (supplied by a MobyLives tipster who wishes to remain anonymous). As Matt Smith reported, Wiley “recently drove an editor at its San Francisco-based Jossey-Bass imprint to resign in protest over the firm’s reversal of a decision to publish a book critical of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Wal-Mart is one of America’s most important booksellers . . . . The imbroglio left Jossey-Bass without an esteemed editor. Its staff was left angry and demoralized . . . . It created a buzz in the San Francisco publishing world that John Wiley & Sons had undermined its editorial staff and censored itself out of fear of America’s largest retailer. And the affair has the potential to turn the New York-based publishing house into a poster child for the cultural tyranny of the world’s largest retailer.” Smith goes on to explain the saga that led him to title his story, “Censorship for Dummies.”