PARIS – 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 lockdown have put the future of the iconic 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. “We’ve been (down) 80% since the first confinement in March, so at this point we’ve used all our savings,” Sylvia Whitman, daughter of the late proprietor George Whitman, told The Associated Press.