What is the best publisher? Pretty certain it's pic related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0VJIYsCxb8

>>9984637
>not the superior Bojack clip
senpai

bloodaxe books

>>9984614

Penguin is important, but these days mainly because it's so large that it can't avoid publishing some worthwhile stuff.

If you're looking for interesting and worthwhile, there are still some good smaller presses: Faber and Faber is an obvious one (for their poetry list, among other things), and another is Canongate. A newer entry to the field is Oneworld, which is ambitious and has already scored some notable successes.

Cambridge U. Press
Oxford U. Press

>>9984614

>not having your own printing press in your basement
>not hiring weirdos off of Craigslist to write nonsense articles about their fetishes
>not hand cranking out batshit insane propaganda for the local paper boys to toss into people's mailboxes

Live a little, m8

>>9984614
Penguin is weak when publishing philosophy. OK for anything else.

>>9984778
I chuckled.

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Pic-related is the only publisher I'm willing to blindly take a chance on.

Penguin's printing quality is too low, imo. If you're looking for something on the cheap, they're a decent option.

>>9984614
Vintage, my man.

NYRB

Xoanon

>>9984778
How much are printing presses these days? I might start doing this.

>>9984637
LOL

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NYBR

Oxford classics

Modern Library

Penguin would be GOAT if they started using non acidic paper.

Vintage

>>9985633
Isn't Modern Library Penguin's?

>>9986175

Yep

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>>9984637

In German it's Anaconda Verlag, they all most of the classics for like 4-10€. (4€ for smaller books <300 pages, 10€ for bigger ones like C&P/Karamazov etc.). Their covers are pretty great 9/10 times, but the paper tends to have light smudge marks.

Folio Society

>>9984614
Oneworld Publications has been killing it as far as new books.

Dalkney and NYRB give me my best reads.

>>9984614
Feral House

>>9986615
This, and they publish in hardcover.
Faber and Faber is top tier for Anglophones, along with Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press, especially Loeb.

penguin is pretty dope, they published David Hawkes translation of the story of the stone

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How's the quality of Alma Classics?

>>9986615
I agree they are cheap, but the hard covers often also feel cheap. And they often choose old-fashioned or outdated translations (I guess for monetary reasons)

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Verso.

>>9986598
Then why is >>9985633 saying Penguin are not so good, and Modern Library are good?

>>9985633
>>9986175
NYRB is also owned by Penguin.
Truly the best publisher.

>>9984770

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>>9987287
I don't know if you're memeing or not but the books do tend to be really high quality.

>>9987326
>>9985633
Maybe. Oxford seems to be overrated, I've heard the Oxford Shakespeare is strongly critisized.
I don't have experience with Penguin paperback durability, I've just bought the first book by them. I have Everyman's (also Penguin's) hardback, it's okay, but the golden letters printed on the cover are pretty bad.

I should also try Vintage, and there's not much left after that.

>>9987390
I have the Oxford Shakespeare.

It seems like it exists as an ornament rather than a book.

>>9987390
>the Oxford Shakespeare is strongly critisized.

Oxford is fine. It's the New Oxford Shakespeare you should avoid.

>>9987397
And there is Old Oxford Shakespeare?

>>9987381
I like Verso, but, considering the political "climate" here recently, I thought the reaction would be different.

>>9984770
/thread

(but broadview is good too imo)

Suhrkamp

>>9987390
>not going for Arden when you go for Shakespeare
Granted, I actually haven't had my hands on a Folger edition yet, I expect them to be good and would love to hear if anyone has a qualified opinion, but Arden Shakespeares have never let me down. I like my annotations and glossary to appear on the page as well.

>>9984976
Yeah NYRB is the best. I hope they're able to someday get their hands on more mainstream classics too so we can get books that last longer.

>>9984614
Big fan of Dalkey. Vintage is great too. Penguin is consistent

>>9987390
Yeah Norton Shakespeare is the best as far as complete editions go.

>>9987778
fuck also Everyman's Library. I know theyre a branch of penguin but damn those are sexy hardcovers

>>9986907
Pretty bad, though they have aesthetic covers. They're just a bit small, and spines tend to crease easier than Penguin

>>9986796
I have their Ted Kaczynski book and it has several typos. Also the Table of Contents lists an index but there isn't one.

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Liberty Fund

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>>9988329
This is better.

Wordsworth Editions are decent if you want a cheap physical copy of something. They were going 3 for £5 the other day, so I got 4 Plays of Ibsen, The Idiot and The Turning of the Screw. The covers are shitty but they usually have good introductions and footnotes. I always go for Penguin otherwise, they're the best aesthetically.

>>9987390
Oxford is way overrated on /lit/ for some reason. They're just the generic publisher for classics that isn't penguin, which is probably why. The font size in them is tiny, and a lot have endnotes instead of footnotes . Their translations are way overrated too, although i don't see the sense of generally labeling a publisher having good translations, as it should be done on an individual basis as even by publisher translations are hit or miss a lot of the time.

>>9987314

Different divisions of the same company.

Modern Library < Random House < Penguin

>>9987381
You're right, for the most part worthwhile content and really good paper/cover.

>>9987791
Yep, they are also tightly bound and last forever. Super fucking comfy to hold, too.