What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. That would include in our day, beyond the obvious candidates, houses as unalike as Oxford University Press and New Directions. But there’s also . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/08/12/130812crbo_books_gottlieb