Reluctant Capitalists Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption

Name: Reluctant Capitalists Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
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ISBN: 9780226525914

ISBN-10: 0226525910

ISBN-13: 9780226525914

Edition: 2007

Authors: Laura J. Miller

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Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, 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, many people believe, should be "above" questions of profit. In "Reluctant Capitalists", Laura J. Miller investigates what drives this belief and how it is affected by the changing retail environment. Miller argues that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new--it started a century ago when department stores began selling books and has culminated in the advent of Internet marketplaces. Miller uses interviews with bookstore customers and members…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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



Ownership Histories of Major American Chain Bookstores


Notes


Bibliography


Index