The title of Steve Kemper's book about Ginger!

[ftropea]

I was just doing a "casual" search over at the U.S. Copyright Office and found the title of Steve Kemper's book about Dean Kamen:

1. TXu-995-762: Dean Kamen and Ginger: Changing the World Through Invention / by Steve Kemper. CLNA: acSteven E. Kemper , 1951-

DREG (Date of Registration): March 26, 2001

DCRE (Date of Creation): Year 2000

ECIF 1/B (which is LOCIS code meaning it's a non-dramatic literary/textual work - aka. a book)

To do the search you have to use Telnet to the LOCIS database. Follow these steps:

1) Go to:

http://www.copyright.gov/records/

2) Click on: "Connect to LOCIS using TN3270"

3) Type "1" and press ENTER. (Copyright Information)

4) Type "1" and press ENTER again. (Works registered for copyright since 1978....etc..)

5) Type: "DEAN KAMEN" and press ENTER.

6) You should see a search result list. Type "r b06" and press ENTER.

7) Type "display 1" and press ENTER.

8) Type "display item 1" and press ENTER.

...

And there you go.

That bit of info has been available since March '01. It's amazing what you can find out there just by doing a little digging.

So what do you think of the title? Are you going to buy a copy? When do you think it'll be released?

Regards,

Frank A. Tropea
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Ginger : Robotics :: PC : Computers

[n/a]

How can we be sure that this will be the final title of the book? The last time I looked, Sagalyn still had it posted under forthcoming books under the title "IT".

[ftropea]

You're right Lawrence.. we don't know. We just know that Kemper filed to copyright his book under this title. It's still interesting and perhaps he'll just replace the word "Ginger" with Segway-HT. But it's a piece of info that we didn't know.

Also, the date he filed for the copyright is interesting... a few months after the reveal. What does that mean?

By the way - does anyone know if Kemper is still IN or is he OUT? At the GMA reveal, I was given the impression he was OUT because Muckle asked and Kamen's personal assistant just gave a wry smile.

Regards,

Frank A. Tropea
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Ginger : Robotics :: PC : Computers