Bob Tripp wrote in today to let us know that progress on the What’s Where in the Apple eBook is coming along nicely, and to ask for your help with the project.  You’ll get to see your name in print, as well as score a free copy!  Read on for all the juicy details (bold emphasis added by A2Central):

The electronic version of “What’s Where in the Apple?” is progressing well.  We have received all of the Guide text conversions back from our vendor in India and are currently doing minor clean-up.  The biggest chore now is to re-enter the figures. These were just too small in the printed version to be scanned and converted and must be essentially re-done by hand.  We have completed the figure entry for the first eight chapters — 12 to go!.

We are expecting to received all of the Atlas and Gazetteer spread sheets in the coming week.  They will require good proofing both to correct any induced errors and to correct those that were in the original.
Anyone willing to proof read ten (10) of the Guide chapters or twenty (20) of the Atlas or Gazetteer spreadsheet pages would get listed on the Acknowledgments page in addition to a free copy of the final eWWA. If you want to participate, please let me know ASAP and also indicate whether you would prefer the Guide or spreadsheets.

We have a Kickstarter project that you can find at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/845678003/electronic-version-of-classic-whats-where-in-the-a

This discusses what we are trying to do, includes a video with some neat pictures of the original cover color-separations from MICRO and other stuff.  We are offering the $15.00 discounted price to Kickstarter Backers and a $50.00 Supporter deal.  Please check it out.

If this works out well, we are considering doing an e-version of the three-volume set “MICRO on the Apple”.

If you’re interested, you can contact Bob directly through the eWWA page linked above, or email us here at A2Central and we’ll put you in touch with him.

As the release of the eBook version of “What’s Where in the Apple” draws near, more details are becoming clear.  Robert Tripp, publisher and owner of the former MICRO Ink, Inc. sent us this information in an email:

What’s Where in the Apple? is in the process of being readied for release as an electronic book. I am the publisher and copyright holder that published this and other microcomputer books back in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of MICRO — The 6502 Journal.  If you go to our web site http://www.whatswhereintheapple.com (or http://www.ewwa.us) you will find lots of good information.  It also includes Chapter 1 from the Guide, page 2 from the Atlas and page 3 from the Gazetteer as samples of what the totally upgraded book will look like.

The site also contains the Adobe PDF version of the original William F. Luebbert article from the August 1979 issue of MICRO.

The plan is to release the PDF book by Sept 1, 2012 priced at $19.95.  The web site has an offer for people who pre-order now who will be notified when the book is released and then have ten days to purchase through PayPal for $15.00.