Я люблю бумажные книги. Но это так, вводное...

I love paper books. But it is, an introductory word. Now where you will not meet phrases like "nothing compares to the smell of a new book" or "books are my best friends." Usually I buy them over the Internet, and then a courier comes to me - that's all. But then I decided to go to a real bookstore. And what do I see? 12 shelving "psychology" 6 shelving "esoteric" even "religion" 4 shelving. And “science and technology” is only 2. Moreover, the books are piled literally anyhow: they were not even sorted by authors, let alone the branches of scientific knowledge sanctified in them. In my opinion, racks with esoterics should look like this: because there can be no order in it ... You can, of course, find some philosophical implication here: all sciences are equal, and neurobiology is as deep and magnificent as quantum physics. But it seems to me that when exhibiting the goods the employees did not have such thoughts, and the bookstore is not the place for such installations.
What was the reason? “Demand creates supply,” and no one has yet canceled it. Is popular non-fiction not in demand? Or maybe it’s just in such demand that it makes no sense to keep more books: they are being sold out faster than they have time to bring new ones. Or maybe this is a cunning plan, and the “Selfish Gene” lies in the “psychology” section next to books about egoism, “The Chemistry of Love” - in the section “Best Romance”, and “The World of Many Worlds” - in the section “Foreign Fantasy” ? But no. Occam's razor cuts backward. There are simply no popular science books in this store. So there is no demand for them. But I think that everything is not so bad, and those who could provide demand, just like I buy books over the Internet. The World Wide Web takes a lot, but it gives no less. It is only a pity that those who go to the bookstore do not see the true greatness of science. Where, if not here, one could “hook” a person who just came for a passport cover.