Bob Tripp wrote in today to let us know that the What’s Where in the Apple eBook has been released:

The job was much more difficult that anticipated due to OCR difficulties with the old-style pseudo line-printer fonts; the work required to convert the Atlas/Gazetteer from the original “messy” format to a simplified, easier to read tabular format; and the need to completely redo all of the figures and tables that were virtually unreadable in the original printed version and more.  Anyway, it is all done and we are quite happy with the result.

“eWWA” is now available for $15 USD (a 25% discount off the regular price) until August 24, 2012.  After that, the price will increase to $19.95.  Visit the eWWA web page now to purchase your copy.

The July 2012 episode of Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, is now available.

This month, Mike and Ken speak with Rich Dreher, developer of the CompactFlash For Apple (CFFA) card. The first batch of CFFA3000 cards sold out in 2011, and the second batch is now shipping with similar sales numbers. Rich dishes on other II hardware developers Vince Briel and Mike Willegal before we look at the astronomical numbers rare Apple-1 computers are fetching on eBay and at Sotheby’s. HyperCard turns 25 while Atari turns 40, though Mike objects to the latter. David Finnigan’s new book is out, and Robert Tripp is hot on his heels when an updated and digitized version of the classic What’s Where in the Apple — and we have the exclusive interview with Bob! All this content and all these guests make for our longest episode ever, perfect for listening to while you drive to next week’s KansasFest.

Find the show on the Open Apple Web site or in iTunes or the Zune marketplace.

Robert Tripp, of the former MICRO INK, Inc. (now known as FlexAble Systems), has announced plans to release the long out of print Apple II title, “What’s Where in the Apple” as an eBook sometime this summer.  Tripp intends to put out more than just a scanned PDF of the popular book, however.  “It is going to be much better than anything that has gone before,” says Tripp. “We are not just scanning and posting, but rather scanning, doing optical character recognition (OCR), cleaning-up minor errors, changing to a better computer/tablet type font and reorganizing the materials to view well on most devices.  The most important — and difficult thing –  is to scan and convert the 100 pages of Atlas and Gazetteer.  Scanning is easy, however just having a ‘picture’ of the tables is not good enough.  Real tables are required that not only look better — properly formatted as columns and real characters — but can be searched.  Want to see all instances of “‘WRITE’ Command”? With the tables you simply enter the search string and all instances will be displayed!”

You can read all about his plans at this page.  Pricing and a release date have yet to be announced, but we can’t wait to see the final product.