Micheal Jackson owns the rights to the Beatles catalog. Probably not all of it, I assume the Beatles own the music they reorded on their own label (apple records?). But they (beatles) like most artists, got shafted pretty hard on their original record contract.

This book is a little different then what you were describing, it's not a transcription book, but a book of arrangements were 1 guitar plays the melody, harmony, and bass simutaneously, think aka Chet Atkins.

I'll have to apply the substitution you talked about later, when I have my guitar nearby. Sounds interesting.