Good bookstores didn't outlast Borders/Barnes & Noble/Books-a-Million etc. (or at least 90% of them didn't.) It was really annoying when people were mourning the destruction of 15 year old book warehouses by Amazon, when I was still mourning 100 year old bookstores.
I don't go to bookshops anymore. Books are just a commodity now, they push the latest product for a few weeks and move on the next.
It is all part of the hype machine.
After a month or so it's like the book never existed at all- it had it's five minutes of fame.
