What's special about Stripe Press? What makes it "serious work"? In "the space" -- what space? Stripe seems like a boutique publisher that carefully selects a

What's special about Stripe Press? What makes it "serious work"? In "the space" -- what space? Stripe seems like a boutique publisher that carefully selects a small number of titles for quality and appeal to a certain audience. But "traditional" publishers like MIT Press, Springer, and Addison-Wesley have put out hundreds of important, high-quality books. With all the signal out there, I don't find it too hard to figure out which ones are the classics that are worth reading.