Clayton County, Southsde still without a major bookseller

MORROW – The city of Morrow, which is located in Clayton County, has just over 6,500 residents . Clayton County, the sixth largest county in the state of Georgia, has just under 300,000 residents, according to United States Census data . There is currently no major bookseller in Clayton County after the Barnes & Noble location in Morrow closed on Tuesday, May 7.

The Morrow store, formerly store # 2865, was 23,000-square-feet and located on a two-acre lot , and had been in business for nearly 30 years. The closest major bookseller will be the Books-A-Million franchise on Jonesboro Rd. in McDonough, which is 15 miles away to the south or the Barnes & Noble location at Georgia Tech on 5th Street in Atlanta or on Peachtree Rd. in Buckhead.

The only bookstore in the county remains Nubian Books, a Black-owned bookstore , which is located in Morrow and has been in business for 25 years. Nubian Books opened in February 1999 inside Southlake Mall and moved into its current location on Southlake Parkway in the fall of 2013.

A recent visit to the site of the former Barnes & Noble on Mt. Zion Rd. showed paper over the windows of the bookstore and of the former onsite Starbucks location, and no business in its place. Signage for business inquiries are posted on the site.

Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the country, began being publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BKS) in 1993 before being sold to Elliott Management Corp. in 2019. The company employs 24,000 people and operates 50 locations across the country, according to Barnes & Noble website data.

There is no Barnes & Noble location in nearby Henry County as well.

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