In your opinion, which companies are the best and most reputable publishers of general interest technical books? I'm largely interested in your opinion on programming books with a fairly broad audience. In other words, when you see a book by this publisher, you think, "It'll probably be high quality."
I think documentation is getting better all the time online for both languages and frameworks. Developers seem to be making it a higher priority and providing plenty of examples compared to products back 15 years ago. For that reason I often fine technical reference books by any publisher increasingly unnecessary. That said I've bought many in my time, O'Reilly sticks out as having an iconic look but I'm not sure they're actually any better than
Sams, Apress and the like.
