UpdatedTue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:22 am ET
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From left, Chelsea Mitchell, a longtime employee of Newtown Book & Record Exchange; former employee Sara Lawton; Bobbie Lewis, the store s founder (Chelsea Mitchell)
NEWTOWN, PA Forty years is a good run for any business, let alone a book and record store, which is a dying breed in modern America where small business owners struggle to compete with retail giants like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Bobbie Lewis, who opened the Newtown Book & Record Exchange at 102 S. State Street in 1981, is placing her trust in one of her longtime employees to keep the business running for another 40 years.