By maria caporizzo
Providence Journal video by Steve Szydlowski
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's oldest book shop, Tyson's Old & Rare Books in East Providence, is closing its doors. Owned by Mariette Bedard, it first opened in 1923 in downtown Providence. Now it's in East Providence. It will close its doors Nov. 15.
Bedard says "Companies like Amazon are reprinting many of the older books, so if people need them for scholarly reasons, they can just copy them from a Kindle or other electronic equipment . . . they don't need to buy an expensive out of print book. That is the problem."
"The younger generation is not reading the way the older generation did," Bedard said.