The Seattlest Talks to the Seattle Mystery Bookshop
From The Seattlest, here’s an interview with the proprietors of the Seattle Mystery Bookshop (one of my parents’ favorite shops, I think):
“I think in order to succeed these days as a small shop, you have to specialize. My wife and I had a general bookshop some years ago, and we found that there were just too many subjects. We found that we couldn’t possibly be knowledgeable in all those fields.”

One of the top several, at least.
Mom