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I think that you are confusing copyright law with the contracts being signed between the authors (copyright holders) and publishing companies. Reversion of rights is frequently a part of the contract.
I think that with regards to fiction, it's pretty rare for a publishing company to withhold a profitable book from the market. The more likely reason is simply that the publishing company decided that it just wasn't profitable to keep the book in print. This happens all the time.
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