ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the influences that informed the decisions, in particular those separate to literary taste or appetite as well as the impact of stimuli emanating from this particular consumer sphere. Studies of Victorian print culture produced in the wake of Richard D. Altick’s field-defining work of scholarship stress further the railway bookstalls as one of principal channels for the dissemination of books and periodicals during this period. The chapter examines how bookstall workers conducted their dealings with the customers who visited the higher-rated units. Attempts to account for the rationale stimulating the guidance the stall workers offered to their customers cast into relief the question of the sources of the cultural perspectives presented in interactions. The chapter also suggests that the wider presence of seemingly non-print culture related kinds of consumer advertising needs to be factored in when profiling the general backdrop of bookstall visitor experiences.
