Favourite book publishers

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Soseki

Soseki

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Do the bookworms here have any favourites? I adore Macmillan Collector’s Library for the pocket size, ribbon, sky blue with gold colours and engraving on the front. Everyman's Library has just as beautiful covers and nice acid-free paper. The introductions of these have been pretty good as well.

I often go out of my way to order from them and I was wondering if anyone else looked into publishers the same way.
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I've never really thought about it. It seems kind of like having a favorite bottling company, in that the stuff I actually care about is inside.
 
Fetish Roulette said:
I've never really thought about it. It seems kind of like having a favorite bottling company, in that the stuff I actually care about is inside.
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Unless it is a translation the contents will generally be the same, right. I prefer physical books over digital and seldom throw books out so I don't want my bookshelves to be full of low quality books.

Like with other products, you recognize small differences between companies and develop a preference.
 
Tartarus Press has some good books as well, alongside having Mark Valentine and Reggie Oliver as their writers.
 
I read a lot of books published by HarperCollins and smaller publishers they own. I don't necessarily seek a particular publisher out I just find I read a lot of HarperCollins stuff.
 
I'll second OP's recommendation of Everyman's Library. It's been a while since I last looked through their selection, but I remember it being pretty great. My only complaint is that if the covers get dusty, good luck getting them looking nice again. Pretty easy to avoid that problem: don't leave the books laying flat for several years because you decided to spend the lockdowns with your family.
 
Sort of difficult for me to say since I'm sure I have read a lot of books from various publishers although I will say that I tend to like Pen & Sword Books when it comes to military history. They're ok.
 
Just pouring one out for Loompanics, the finest publisher that ever existed. Crazy hippies talking about their dicks? How to hide a shiv in eighteen novel locations? A how-to guide (Fictional, of course, but it still scared the shit out of people) of how to break into the assassination for hire business? Whatever, let's run it out onto the presses.
 
Imperium Press as mentioned, is quite good. I've bought most of their books now and have been happy with the quality. When I get paid, the new de Maistre book has to be bought. Though I should finish the one I have by him first...

It depends on the translator, but Oxford Word Classics are cheap and reasonable. I have a Nietzsche fetish, so I usually have issues with translators, but. the Hollingsdale stuff is really good. Kauffman can go fuck himself.
 
Baen Books. Great books by great authors, innovative on several fronts like the Baen free library, and despite relentless pressure from the rest of scifi and fantasy publishing to cave, have stood against the flood of leftism in genre publishing without compromise or flenching.

That everyone complaining about the state of modern pop culture and lack of based or right wing culture doesn't back them to the hilt is an indictment of how little people who hate wokism are actually willing to do the best thing to actually beat it, and support companies and creators who stand against it.

Hell, I'd even settle for a fraction of all the people who hate Disney Star Wars buying Timothy Zahn's books published by Baen.
 
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