Reluctant capitalists : bookselling and the culture of consumption / Laura J. Miller.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Miller, Laura J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Booksellers and bookselling--United States.
• Booksellers and bookselling.
• Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
• Consumption (Economics).
• Books--Purchasing.
• Books.
• Bookstores.
• United States.
• Bookstores--United States.
• Books--Purchasing--United States.
• Books and reading--United States.
• Books and reading.
• Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
• Consumer behavior--United States.
• Consumer behavior.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Contents:

• Commercial culture and its discontents
• From dry goods merchant to Internet mogul : bookselling through American history
• Providing for the sovereign consumer : selecting and recommending books
• Designing the bookstore for the standardized consumer
• Serving the entertained consumer : the multifunction bookstore
• Bargaining with the rational consumer : selling the low-cost book
• The revolt of the retailers : independent bookseller activism
• Pursuing the citizen-consumer : consumption as politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

ISBN:

0226525902

OCLC:

61451522

Publisher Number:

9780226525907