that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

Yes.

That’s the problem with living in the weirdest timeline: reality is more satirical than fiction.

I basically go by the “this would be an Onion headline in a sane world” criteria.

Because “crazy person acted rationally and within established norms” is frankly not a fascinating read nor THAT surprising when the last person in the room with him is sometimes either a rational person or someone wanting reasonable things for unreasonable reasons.