> ...while my podunk place in "flyover country" has now 13x the number of available outlets for something like this?

There are many reasons why bookstores might choose not to set-up in the Bronx or now even in Manhattan.

Whatever the reasons, real bookstores everywhere are rapidly becoming nostalgic throwbacks to a different era.

They're not a "basic amenity" anymore. This will soon catch up with your (as you describe it) "podunk place in flyover country" just as surely as your town has left behind acid-wash jeans and mullets in the year 2013.