Reluctant capitalists : bookselling and the culture of consumption / Laura J. Miller.
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TextLanguage: 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 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 378.101 HEA 2013 Academic leadership and governance of higher education : | 378.190973 DID 2008 Designing and assessing courses and curricula : | 379.154 GRM 1996 Monitoring the learning outcomes of education systems / | 381.450020973 MIR 2006 Reluctant capitalists : | 382.01 INT 1995 International trade : | 382.30954 TRA 2011 Trade liberalisation and poverty in South Asia / | 382.4050955 ANN 2011 Annual import payments 2010-2011 |
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
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