Bring on the books for everybody : how literary culture became popular culture / Jim Collins.

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.

The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation -- Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment -- The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary -- "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation -- Sex and the post-literary city -- The devoutly literary bestseller.