> Publishers should lose copyright to every work they do not offer in perpetuity with every purchase in every format

If such a law comes, the publisher will set the price to, say, 1 billion USD.

Yeah, I keep seeing suggestions like this and I just don't get it. Like the only way people can fathom something being available is if it's for sale. We really need shorter copyright terms more than anything else.

But they don't do that with physical books.

I do know examples where publishers did stop printing new editions (i.e. stopped publishing) some books.

Such a law could easily forbid price gouging.