Costco plans to stop selling books outside the holiday season, publishing execs say

• Costco plans to stop selling books on a regular basis, publishing execs told The New York Times.
• They said Costco would sell books only for the holidays and maybe on some other occasions.
• The decision was mainly down to the labor required to stock books, they said.

Costco plans to stop selling books on a regular basis, largely because of how much labor it requires, four unidentified publishing executives told The New York Times.