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I think he's counting on the part of the contract that he describes as being roughly "If O'Reilly fails to do X, Y and Z, the rights automatically revert to me." It sounds like he is confident that it is O'Reilly that breached the contract, not him.


There is also a provision in some publishing contracts that say that once the book goes out of print, the rights revert back to you.


In publishing contracts I've entered into with major publishers, it usually says the rights revert back to me after 2 years of it being out of print. Not immediately.


If that's the case here, refusing to print any more copies of the first edition is a bad business decision for O'Reily.


Right and he's already banking on the fact that he has won that lawsuit.




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