zombie wrote: all rights are controlled by the publisher.
Do they expire relatively soon or is there a chance of buying them back? With all the random links which point to the SHoSW site, you could possibly have enough people donate to make it happen. Places like kickstarter.com for instance allow you to set up a monetary goal with a practical end date, and people pledge, and only if the goal is met by the date are the funds redistributed. If not for getting the rights back, maybe for a the funds to print the second edition, without too much of an initial loss.
Growing up a self-published comic book fan, there are more and more success stories of this, and periodically read stories of book authors now-a-days making the shift from publisher to self-publisher. Where they can drop the digital download price which finds a much larger audience. The issue then becomes how much paypal takes.