Theatrical Dyeing textbook out of print!

[labricoleuse]

This semester, the crafts course I'm teaching is on dyeing, surface design, and distressing/aging. I have taught this class several times and have always used for our textbook the invaluable reference, Painting and Dyeing for the Theatre by Deborah M. Dryden.

This semester though, I learned that the book's publisher, Heinemann, has allowed the book to go out of print. It's gone from their catalog, website, everything, and used copies are now going for over a hundred bucks at minimum!

If you use this book in your own classes or dyeshop, or are just concerned that the ONLY book applicable to the field of dyeing for the theatre has gone out of print, please help out by doing one or both of these things:

1. Go to the book's Amazon page and click the link on the right which says "Tell the Publisher! I'd like to read this book on Kindle!" An e-book release would keep their costs down but still allow students and theatre professionals to purchase the title legally, and provide the author with deserved royalties.
2. Email Heinemann and ask them to please consider a new edition or digital release of the title: custserv@heinemann.com

Thank you!

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Man. I hope that you're able to get the e-book version of it going--there's no reason in this day and age for something like this to not be available somewhere.

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

Well, in the long term, I think for my future classes that i can work with my university bookstore to obtain special permission from the rights-holders to create a course-pack reprint--i've done that for other out of print books i wanted to use. But, that means that the students who get those will wind up with a spiral-bound xerox version of the text. Better than nothing i suppose but it's a crying shame that then only people who took a class with a professor who did such a thing would own a copy of the book. It's such an invaluable reference.