Dr. S. R. Lasker Library Online Catalogue

Home      Library Home      Institutional Repository      E-Resources      MyAthens      EWU Home

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

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

By: Miller, Laura JMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006. Description: x, 316 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226525907 (hbk.); 0226525902 (hbk.); 9780226525914 (pbk.); 0226525910 (pbk.)Subject(s): Booksellers and bookselling -- United States | Bookstores -- United States | Books -- Purchasing -- United States | Books and reading -- United States | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States | Consumer behavior -- United StatesDDC classification: 381.450020973 LOC classification: Z471 | .M64 2006Online resources: WorldCat details | E-book Fulltext
Contents:
TOC 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.
Summary: Bookselling has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. Yet unlike other retail industries, bookselling should be "above" questions of profit. This work investigates what drives this belief and how it is affected by the changing retail environment.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
E-Book E-Book Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
E-book
Non-fiction 381.450020973 MIR 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan
Text Text Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
Reserve Section
Non-fiction 381.450020973 MIR 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan 25568
Text Text Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
Reserve Section
Non-fiction 381.450020973 MIR 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-2 Not For Loan 25569
Total holds: 0

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

TOC 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.

Bookselling has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. Yet unlike other retail industries, bookselling should be "above" questions of profit. This work investigates what drives this belief and how it is affected by the changing retail environment.

Sociology

Tahur Ahmed

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.