Reluctant capitalists : bookselling and the culture of consumption / Laura J. Miller.
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- 9780226525921
- 0226525929
- 9780226525907
- 0226525902
- 1281965960
- 9781281965967
- 9786611965969
- 6611965963
- 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 States
- Libraires -- États-Unis
- Librairie -- États-Unis
- Librairies -- États-Unis
- Livres -- Achat -- États-Unis
- Livres et lecture -- États-Unis
- Consommation (Économie politique) -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Consommateurs -- Comportement -- États-Unis
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
- Books and reading
- Books -- Purchasing
- Booksellers and bookselling
- Bookstores
- Consumer behavior
- Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
- United States
- Buchhandel
- Buchmarkt
- USA
- 381/.45002/0973 22
- Z471 .M64 2006eb
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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.
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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. Looking at a century of book retailing, this text demonstrates that the independent/chain dynamic is not entirely new.
English.
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