FILE – This May 28, 2015 file photo shows attendees at the HarperCollins Publishers booth during BookExpo America in New York. Publishing’s annual national convention, BookExpo, has been postponed until July. Organizers cited concerns about the coronavirus in rescheduling the gathering, originally scheduled to take place in late May at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Three of the top five publishers in the U.S. will not be attending BookExpo, the industry’s national convention. Organizers already had pushed back the event from May to July in the hopes of easing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins Publishers both announced Tuesday that they had dropped out,

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