Reluctant capitalists [electronic resource] : bookselling and the culture of consumption / Laura J. Miller.
By: Miller, Laura J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: x, 316 p.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 StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 381/.45002/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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E-book | IUKL Library | Subscripti | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10265953 | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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