All Cokesbury Stores to Close

[Jerome]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20121106/BUSINESS01/311060028

The United Methodist Publishing House plans to close its Cokesbury retail bookstores nationwide, including in Nashville, to focus on selling online and through its call center. From January through April, all 38 standalone retail stores, including the one off Eighth Avenue South near downtown Nashville, and 19 stores at seminaries across the country will close

The 57 bookstore locations to be shut down are spread across 25 states and in Washington, D.C.

about 185 full-time employees plus more than 100 part-time workers will lose their jobs

 

[billwald]

Even before the Facebook Revolution 90% of the books were bought by less than 10% of the population. Our church library has a fair to good selection of books for school age children. In the past year only one young person has taken out a book. The few mostly retirement age adults who use the library only read from the fiction side.