TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Laura J.
TI  - Reluctant capitalists: bookselling and the culture of consumption 
SN  - 9780226525921
AV  - Z471 .M64 2006eb
U1  - 381/.45002/0973 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
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
KW  - Libraires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Librairie
KW  - Librairies
KW  - Livres
KW  - Achat
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Consommation (Économie politique)
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Consommateurs
KW  - Comportement
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Sales & Selling
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Commerce
KW  - fast
KW  - Buchhandel
KW  - gnd
KW  - Buchmarkt
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index; 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
N2  - 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. Looking at a century of book retailing, this text demonstrates that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new
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