There was a time in the nineties when I was living in Portland (Michigan) which is a town of 3500 and it had a great bookstore downtown. Yet East Lansing where I live now, the home of my alma mater, Michigan State University, lost it's remaining bookstore downtown. That still boggles my mind.

Yet right after the dotcom crash the bookstores that had multiple aisles of programming books shrunk the computer section to half an aisle. They told me however they could order anything I wanted. I used to browse the bookstores on Sundays. Now I browse the web and order what I need from Amazon. Have to think they did it to themselves.