Pretty rough crowd here
The fact of the matter, this is the way the industry is going, except for maybe the big publishing houses. Mongoose may be able to get stock in stores around the world, but the majority of purchases are done via the internet, or even .pdf sales.
Trust me, I'd rather have it like the good ol' days of the 80's, where I could go to the hobby store, flip through the books for hours and hours, but those days are mostly gone excepting for the more mainstream stuff.