Paris Bookseller Shakespeare & Co. at Risk of Shutdown
Shakespeare and Company sent an email to customers last week to inform them that it was facing “hard times" and to encourage them to buy a book.
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Paris (AP) -- Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore that published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in 1922, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France's spring coronavirus lockdown put the future of the Left Bank institution in doubt.
The English-language bookshop on the Seine River sent an email to customers last week to inform them that it was facing “hard times" and to encourage them to buy a book. Paris entered a fresh lockdown on Oct. 30 that saw all non-essential stores shuttered for the second time in seven months.