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If you want to purchase a book on Amazon, then your best bet is to just only look for books sold and published by a reputable or at least known publisher. This

If you want to purchase a book on Amazon, then your best bet is to just only look for books sold and published by a reputable or at least known publisher. This is especially true for a lot of older books, which often have great editions in the midst of awful "print on demand" versions or new typesettings of old public domain version with awful quality and editing. (Then, even further, you might as well just cut out Amazon as the middleman if you're so inclined, or look for a local book store that has online purchases.)

Turing_Machine 3y ago
"Reputable publishers" put out garbage books all the time. Remember "Snooki"? Four books for sale on Amazon, all published by a "reputable publisher" (in fact, a division of Simon and Schuster). Of the current top 20 best sellers list: https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/ref=zg_bs_nav_books_0 https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/... I'd rate at least 15 as "garbage books" on sight. "Reputable publishers" are in business to make money. Some of them may put on airs of intellectual quality, but in fact if trash books make a buck, they will publish them. If high-quality books are unlikely to make a profit, they will not.