Lack of specialty books

Why is it that it is so hard to find the book you are looking for at the local bookstore or department stores that sell books? Whenever I am looking for a specific book, such as a new cookbook, I can never find it. Books that are talked about on daytime talk shows are not sold in this area. Yes you can ask the store to order the book for you, but then it takes a good two weeks for it to come in. My mom says because of the remote area we live in, books are stocked by volume that sells. Either way, it’s not fair. I guess that is why more and more people turn to the Internet to order books and other items. So I will be ordering the books I am interested in online or from the author’s Web sites.