He figured in the surge in book publishing that began in the late 16th century, working with a Kyoto-based publisher to produce high-quality editions of classical literature.
In the early modern period a few "humanists called for a system of censorship, never implemented, to guarantee that only high-quality editions be printed," Ann Blair writes in Agent of Change.
The publisher Jason Epstein called the Eighth Street Bookshop "a bibliographer's paradise," and said that the store was his inspiration for starting Anchor Books, considered by many to be one of the first producers of quality paperback editions.
Good quality first editions can cost $5,000 to $25,000.
Quality first editions of Denslow's book go for around $850.
Nonetheless, the Darwin Manuscripts Project does have an interest in providing easy access to good quality digital editions of a small number of Darwin's previously published works.
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Using tax breaks and cheap labor, Indian companies publish the books in black-and-white, low-quality paperback editions, and sell them for as little as 10percentt of the cost of the same book in the United States.
There is one good sign on this front, which is that Criterion, the makers of the highest-quality DVD editions in the world (or at least in the U.S ., has just started releasing Blu-Ray versions of its films, and it's pricing them the same as its DVDs (which are, admittedly, already very expensive).
