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• catalog abstract ""In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books" as a loss-leader to draw customers into store. Selling for only nine cents a copy, the small-format modern classics attracted crowds of buyers. Businessmen, housewives, students, bohemian intellectuals, and others waited in long lines to purchase affordable hardbound copies of works by the likes of Tolstoy, Wilde, Joyce, and Woolf. It was a significant moment in American cultural history, demonstrating that a series of books respected and praised by the nation's self-appointed arbiters of taste could attract a throng of middle-class consumers without damaging its reputation as a vehicle of "serious culture."" "The Modern Library's reputation stands in sharp contrast to that of similar publishing ventures dismissed by critics as agents of "middle-brow culture," such as the Book-of-the-Month Club. Writers for the New Republic, the Nation, and the Bookman expressed their fears that mass-production and new distribution schemes would commodify literature and deny the promise of American culture. Yet although the Modern Library offered the public a uniformly packaged, preselected set of "the World's Best Books," it earned the praise of these self-consciously intellectual critics." "Focusing on the Modern Library's marketing strategies, editorial decisions, and close attention to book design, Jay Satterfield explores the interwar cultural dynamics that allowed the publisher of the series to exploit the forces of mass production and treat books as commodities even while positioning the series as a revered cultural entity. So successful was this approach that the modern publishing colossus Random House was built on the reputation, methods, and profits of the Modern Library."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12661022.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""In October 1930, Macy's department store in New York City used the inexpensive book series "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books" as a loss-leader to draw customers into store. Selling for only nine cents a copy, the small-format modern classics attracted crowds of buyers. Businessmen, housewives, students, bohemian intellectuals, and others waited in long lines to purchase affordable hardbound copies of works by the likes of Tolstoy, Wilde, Joyce, and Woolf. It was a significant moment in American cultural history, demonstrating that a series of books respected and praised by the nation's self-appointed arbiters of taste could attract a throng of middle-class consumers without damaging its reputation as a vehicle of "serious culture."" "The Modern Library's reputation stands in sharp contrast to that of similar publishing ventures dismissed by critics as agents of "middle-brow culture," such as the Book-of-the-Month Club. Writers for the New Republic, the Nation, and the Bookman expressed their fears that mass-production and new distribution schemes would commodify literature and deny the promise of American culture. Yet although the Modern Library offered the public a uniformly packaged, preselected set of "the World's Best Books," it earned the praise of these self-consciously intellectual critics." "Focusing on the Modern Library's marketing strategies, editorial decisions, and close attention to book design, Jay Satterfield explores the interwar cultural dynamics that allowed the publisher of the series to exploit the forces of mass production and treat books as commodities even while positioning the series as a revered cultural entity. So successful was this approach that the modern publishing colossus Random House was built on the reputation, methods, and profits of the Modern Library."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Establishing the world's best books -- Advertising the world's best books -- Booming the world's best books -- Packaging the world's best books -- Selecting the world's best books -- Closing the world's best books.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.".
• catalog extent "ix, 240 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1558493530 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Studies in print culture and the history of the book".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "070.5/09 21".
• catalog subject "Books and reading United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Literature publishing United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Modern Library (Firm) History.".
• catalog subject "Modern library of the world's best books History.".
• catalog subject "Monographic series.".
• catalog subject "Publishers and publishing New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Z473.M79 S28 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "Establishing the world's best books -- Advertising the world's best books -- Booming the world's best books -- Packaging the world's best books -- Selecting the world's best books -- Closing the world's best books.".
• catalog title "The world's best books : taste, culture, and the Modern library / Jay Satterfield.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".