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The only reasonable way I could see this happening is if the publisher had a limited time license to sell the ebook, and the contract has expired, but they still have some unsold print copies in a warehouse.
No, I don’t know why I’m trying to justify this.
That's still a very good example of artificial scarcity.
I don't think you're trying to justify it, I think there's a reasonable explanation because any sane human being knows that no publisher, or anybody really, wants to deal with paper copies. And I think we're just searching for that reasonable explanation.