B&N isn't the type of bookstore the boyz in that hood prefer anyway.
It's all the same organization when you get down to it and Barnes & Noble's new RO Theater location is closer to Montrose than Alabama Bookstop (which is Upper Kirby).
Bookstop was a valid bookstore in this town until Barnes & Noble swallowed them up and opened the big brick & mortar stores.
There is a Border's bookstore at Alabama and Kirby. I guess B&N didn't want to compete with Border's and abandoned the neighborhood.