TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Laura J.
TI  - Reluctant capitalists: bookselling and the culture of consumption 
SN  - 9780226525907 (hbk.)
AV  - Z471 .M64 2006
U1  - 381.450020973  
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Booksellers and bookselling
KW  - United States
KW  - Bookstores
KW  - Books
KW  - Purchasing
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Consumer behavior
N1  - 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; Sociology
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.worldcat.org/title/reluctant-capitalists-bookselling-and-the-culture-of-consumption/oclc/148646206&referer=brief_results
UR  - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/7293
ER  -