When a country embraces capitalism, this is what happens. Smaller shoppes are pushed out by the corporate feck monkeys who have the money for new buildings and offer new products. Now, I'm one of those odd things that likes new things and cannot buy used texts. Uni was very hard for me because I was poor and used texts were 1/3 the price of new. But I understand the pull of out-of-print books, and have purchased a few in my time (against my principles, of course!).

On the bright side, it sounds like it's just been moved somewhere else. So have you :p