Daniel replies:

Thanks for the kind words. Publishers are not so easy to convince. Publishers are companies. Companies are not people, they are something that happens when people get together and operate under certain rules, or supposed rules, or lack of rules, in a corporate way. Try an experiment. Next time you attend one of those librarian jamborees, get 1,000 librarians to sign a petition asking for some deserving out-of-print book to be brought back--doesn't need to be one of mine--but it could be. Assuming you can do this, send the petition to the publisher. You would think 1,000 professionals stating that a book ought to be in print would convince a publisher, wouldn't you? Then wait and see what happens. I find it easier to just write whole new books.