Publishers who are good

>praising capitalist pig dogs on a lefty board full of broke students and humanities grads

>>9152790
What's wrong with penguin classics?

>>9152755
W.W. Norton & Co.

>>9152891
>autism incarnate
>>>/pol/

All the Penguin books I've had have been cheap trash tbqhwyf

>>9152755
Oxford costs about the same as Penguin but I like their footnotes and endnotes better.

I will read anything from:

Greywolf
Knopf
Everyman's
Copper Canyon
Catedra
Anagrama
Oxford Classics
Harvard Classics

>>9152790
but the penguin is cute

I only care about the author and translation.

>>9152882
Names of the bottom publishers? I only recognise Dalkey, New Directions, and ofc NYRB.

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Can someone explain to me why everyone here hates Penguin?

I'm looking for a serious answer, please.

>>9152976
its a meme you dipshiy

>>9152905
study yourself

>>9152976

It's popular and for plebs

>>9152976
the company is run by jews

How do you feel about Faber & Faber?

>>9152755
I enjoy vintage and bantam the most. Then penguin and tor.

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Personal favorite

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only gallimard folio

>>9152882
>twisted spoon shill fag

get out

>>9153151
He's doing alright he's in sports and my boy got himself a girlfriend. How is my ex-wife doing these days?

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Bantam will forever be the GOAT paperback publisher because they had the fucking sickest covers of all time.

>>9152755
My diary, desu.

>>9153893
If you're genuinely anything other than some shade of leftist (as opposed to liberal), especially on this board, then you have no sense of irony and should get off this board.

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>>9153898

Fuck off. I'll stay here if I want to, cuck.

>>9153903
Feel free to. It'd almost be nice to not have the intellectual fortitude to understand when my own ideas are fucking stupid.

>>9153914

>Projection

>>9153927
>no u

see how easily conversation degenerates when one person can't fathom an ironic and detached disposition?

>>9152976
honestly, I have never encountered a satisfactory paperback published by Penguin. they all feel cheap and the print quality is iffy. on the other hand, they do seem quite durable.

FSG you fucks

I don't understand the Penguin hate desu. The font is comfortable and at a good size. The paper is white and the classics covers are pretty uniform and stylish. Not saying it's the best but it does a pretty good job.

>>9154521
The typesetting is fine, but their graphic design/cover design is so god-awful to my eye not only can I not buy them, I judge people who have them. It's so generic, in the worst way.

>>9154521
Because it and Random House are like the Borg of publishing.

All the hip cool cats stick to independent publishers.

>>9154527
Most of them are just paintings/artwork with a black bottom third.

>>9154530
ik Oxford Classics are pretty good, what else?

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>>9154197
This, desu desu.

This comment about print quality is true. It's like they use paper that's slightly too dark or the ink is not black enough. The text does not stand out from the page, which incidentally feels like soft denim. It doesn't take a good dogear and tears easily.

Penguin also has a tendency to break up classics unnecessarily. So to get all your Plutarch, for example, you'd have to buy 2-3 books. Robbery. They're not even recent works, but reprints of century-old translations.

>t. owns many Penguin books & enjoys them but publisher could do better.

>>9152755
I have a lot of Penguins, but actually like Dover. Their books feel like they'll last forever. I also like FSG (farrar strauss giroux). /lit/ Nortons have a lot of (really bad) filler, and I have some older readers that are falling apart.

Loeb classics are quality, as are Everyman's Library and Knopf.

>>9153223
hahah holy fuck please.

>>9152807
i still maintain that penguin's books are made of some pretty cheap material and break down from just existing for too long, like, in a matter of days.

>>9154527
this honestly. the broom of the system is the only good penguin book ive seen.

>>9152922
t h i s

>>9153935

>We need more irony
>Implying we had a conversation in the first place
>Implying there are ever discussions in these kinds of threads