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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T02:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. \"It's all so funny,\" she says. \"When I tell them I run the trade association for independent stores, they'll say, 'It's just so sad that they're disappearing....",
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