alt Hacker NewsMost of these are also available in ebook (free ebooks, in the case of public domain works like the Bertrand Russell), which makes me think that the people who don't value paper books in-and-of-themselves probably aren't buying the shoddy paperbacks either.
For someone who specifically likes the experience of a paper books, the option of a better print (or at least disclosure of the print quality) is highly desirable
My comment and the part of the previous comment I was replying to are explicitly about works in copyright.
For public domain works, poor quality printed copies could never be criticized as crowding out better quality copies.