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If you follow through the author's article to a link from an article by Courtney Milan, Aubrey is referring to a statutory right for an author to terminate a grant of rights after 35 years. I don't know what the reversion terms were in the contracts by the publishing houses were, but for a print book, it's usually has something to do with being out of print, but for ebooks, it's probably a number of sales per some unit of time. It's possible that all of the publishing houses were setting the bar too high to be for her to get the rights back.
I think her biggest concern was not the copyright reversion, but the non-compete clauses. If she is a fast writer and has more than 3 books in the queue, a 3 book contract will limit the number of books she can get published to that of the publisher's schedule. I think she's atypical for a new author, but if self-publishing works for her, more power to her.
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