True, it's a private, spontaneous witch burning. So much more civilised than places where the witch burning is done by the state.
Doesn’t this phrase imply that someone is being harmed? Who is being harmed in this case?
The estate that controls the publication rights is deciding not to publish these books, and eBay is deciding not to list the books on its own platform. No one is being penalized or punished, and these entities are acting fully within their rights.
So the harm seems proportional to the harm done by refusing to bake that wedding cake for the gay couple.
Market economies allow for stupid mistakes. It really is civilized when the blast radius of such mistakes is "people who get all their books from ebay" instead of "everyone in the country."