Non-Fiction reprint market

If the rights have fully returned to you, then you can sub it to any publishers that would be relevant. Of course, whether anyone will be buy it is another question entirely. If you have sales data from the original publication that should probably be included in the query (and obviously the fact that it has been previously published should be included). I'm afraid I don't know of any publishers who make a specific point of buying OOP books, but it definitely happens. I think the best thing to do is to treat it like a sub of a new book (i.e. write the best query letter you can, study the market and pick the most appropriate publishers, etc.), but just make sure you inform them that it is an OOP book and that rights have fully reverted to you (if they haven't you shouldn't be subbing it).

Good luck!

I'm definiety thinking about the same thing. My non-fic book is 17 years out of print and I've been thinking about revising and giving it a totally new face--in other words, an updated second edition. I would also like to hear about the possibilities. I'm assuming that I have my rights back, since it's been so long and the original publisher is now gone. My book only appears on Amazon as used copies under private sale.

I'd like to hear about this too.

Tri

Oh, my gawd. I didn't know this. I have no documentation on this book at all. I only know that Betterway Publications was in Crozet Virginia, but I can't find anything on them. I'll try some deep searches. This is troubling in a way and I don't know what to look for or how to do it.

Tri