No-one's burning any books. A company has decided to stop printing and selling a few books. This is the exact same commercial decision they make every day for t

No-one's burning any books. A company has decided to stop printing and selling a few books. This is the exact same commercial decision they make every day for thousands of books. There's probably a useful discussion about whether orphaned works should be protected by copyright. But it's madness to suggest that once a publisher has published a book they're somehow compelled to continue publishing that book in perpetuity.