A team of five people at a small nonprofit in Ann Arbor, Mich., may be all that ensures that next month's rent and food gets on the table for many of America's booksellers. As bookstores are forced to furlough or fire many of their frontline booksellers in the face of new coronavirus–related restrictions, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) has emerged as one of the few reliable sources of financial support, raising more than $700,000 to support them since early March.
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