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FILE - In this Friday, June 18, 2021, file photo, journalist Katie Couric attends a screening during the 20th Tribeca Festival at The Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, in New York. Little, Brown and Company and Live Nation announced Monday, June 21, 2021, that Couric will embark on an 11-city in-person promotional tour for her book “Going There,” beginning with an appearance at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on Oct. 28.(Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
Couric book tour this fall will be in-person, in theaters

By Hillel Italie Jun. 21, 2021 05:03 AM EDT

FILE- In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, file photo, customers browse while shopping for books at the Strand Bookstore, an independent family owned bookstore founded in 1927 in New York. On Thursday, the American Booksellers Association said that membership increased from 1,635 to 1,701 since May 2020, the additions a combination of brand new stores and existing stores that had not previously been part of the independents’ trade group. While association CEO Allison Hill and others had feared that hundreds of stores could go out of business during the 2020-21 holiday season, the ABA so far has only tallied 14 closings in 2021, along with more than 70 last year. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Indie bookstores avoid the worst — so far — from pandemic

By Hillel Italie May. 27, 2021 09:46 AM EDT

Marie Vytopilova, wife of the late Jaromir Vytopil, stands in a bookstore in Pelhrimov, Czech Republic, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Some 25,000 have been killed by COVID-19 in the hard-hit Czech Republic. Jaromir Vytopil was one of them. His everyday presence in the small Czech town of Pelhrimov was something everybody took for granted for seven decades as he had served the generations of readers. The longest serving Czech bookseller, passed away on Nov 9. 2020, at age of 83. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Longest-serving bookseller among 25,000 Czech virus victims

By Karel Janicek Mar. 28, 2021 03:08 AM EDT

Customers wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, in an Ikea store on its reopening day, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 1, 2021. Swiss authorities last week gave a go-ahead to what they called a “cautious” reopening despite a new, more-transmissible COVID-19 variant that first appeared in Britain that is increasingly circulating in the rich Alpine country. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Swiss bask in reopened shops as COVID-19 cases drop

By Jamey Keaten Mar. 01, 2021 01:48 PM EST

FILE - In this April 9, 2020, file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France. Amazon announced Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, that Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO later in the year, leaving a role he’s had since founding the company nearly 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
5 challenges awaiting Amazon's new CEO

By Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio Feb. 03, 2021 06:29 PM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, signs for Hachette Book Group are displayed at BookExpo America in New York. Hachette cancelled a memoir by Woody Allen, whose daughter Dylan Farrow has alleged he sexually abused her, after employees staged a walkout in protest. Skyhorse Publishing later released the book. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'

By Hillel Italie Dec. 14, 2020 11:23 AM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York. The annual publishing convention and trade show, a decades-old tradition, may be coming to an end. ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for a quarter century, announced that it was dropping the event, along with the fan-based BookCon. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'

By Hillel Italie Dec. 14, 2020 10:35 AM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York. The annual publishing convention and trade show, a decades-old tradition, may be coming to an end. ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for a quarter century, announced Tuesday that it was dropping the event, along with the fan-based BookCon. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

By Hillel Italie Dec. 01, 2020 12:00 PM EST

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 04:06 PM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2020 file photo, an Amazon logo appears on an Amazon delivery van, in Boston. Amazon opened an online pharmacy Tuesday, Nov. 17 giving shoppers the chance to buy their medication and order refills on their phones and computers and have it delivered to their doorsteps in a couple of days. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Amazon opens online pharmacy, shaking up another industry

By Joseph Pisani And Tom Murphy Nov. 17, 2020 11:02 AM EST

FILE - The Amazon logo appears in Douai, northern France on April 16, 2020. With many independent bookstore owners facing the most dire financial crisis in their lifetimes, the American Booksellers Association has teamed with an award-winning advertising agency known for “culture hacking” to dramatize the threats of the pandemic and the growing dominance of Amazon.com. On Tuesday, the trade group launched the “Boxed Out” campaign, for which a handful of bookstores around the country will have windows boarded up and boxes piled up out front that resemble Amazon delivery containers. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
Indie bookstores launch anti-Amazon 'Boxed Out' campaign

By Hillel Italie Oct. 13, 2020 02:01 PM EDT

Lawmakers fail to override more than 20 Sununu vetoes

By Kathy Mccormack Sep. 16, 2020 04:43 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers on Wednesday failed to override more than 20 bills vetoed by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, including a catchall...

In this Thursday, June 25, 2020, photo, Karen Hayes works in her office in Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn. The independent bookstore, owned by Hayes and novelist Ann Patchett, opened and thrived while others were closing their doors and is once again defying the odds during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Novelist Patchett has Nashville bookstore customers swooning

By Travis Loller Jun. 26, 2020 12:04 PM EDT

A driver wearing a mask parks his bus after a special trip for government employees during extended lockdown in Kochi, southern Kerala state, India, Monday, May 18, 2020. India on Monday saw a slow trickle of people returning outdoors and thin traffic on its roads in some states, a day after the federal government extended the nationwide coronavirus lockdown to May 31 but eased many restrictions to restore economic activity. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)
Some traffic returns to roads as India eases virus lockdown

By Sheikh Saaliq And Emily Schmall May. 18, 2020 04:22 AM EDT

Linda Dyal, left, talks with Maria Boeri, owner of Savona Deli on Main Street in Bel Air, Md., Friday, May 15, 2020. Dyal, a customer at the deli for many years, said she was very happy Boeri finally is allowed to reopen her business after shutting down fro more than a month because of the coronavirus outbreak. Beginning Friday evening, small business and retailers will be allowed to reopen with some guidelines after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan lifts a stay-at-home oder. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Maryland to begin gradual reopening of some retail, services

By Brian Witte May. 15, 2020 12:31 PM EDT

This combination of images released by Scholastic shows the cover image for "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," by Suzanne Collins, left, and a portrait of Collins. The "Hunger Games" novel will be released on May 19. (Scholastic via AP, left, Todd Plitt/Scholastic via AP)
The promotion will be virtual for new "Hunger Games" novel

By Hillel Italie May. 14, 2020 11:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo Amazon Prime boxes are loaded on a cart for delivery in New York. Slow shipping times and sold out items have plagued Amazon since the coronavirus pandemic caused a rush of orders from home-bound people. But the world’s largest online retailer isn’t the only place to shop online. With their doors closed, many physical retailers are expanding curbside pickup, which lets people buy something online and pick it up at the parking lot. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Can’t find what you need on Amazon? Try these ways to shop

By Joseph Pisani May. 13, 2020 03:14 PM EDT

In this photo taken Monday, April 27, 2020, the Astro-Zombies comic shop in Albuquerque, N.M., sits closed due to a statewide health order to stop the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
Socked by virus, comic book industry tries to draw next page

By Jake Coyle May. 01, 2020 03:16 AM EDT

Post-it notes for first responders are posted on the wall of the Anderson Mall during the coronavirus pandemic, on Friday, April 24, 2020 in Anderson, S.C. The Anderson Mall opened to limited business after South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster eased restrictions. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
Gov issues new emergency declaration as SC begins to reopen

By Meg Kinnard Apr. 27, 2020 06:50 PM EDT

Report: McMaster plans to have retail stores reopen Tuesday

Apr. 18, 2020 04:34 PM EDT
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina retail stores and public beach access points that had been closed to halt the spread of the coronavirus will be allowed to...