An example of a well published book and a poorly published one

The Eyewitness Travel Guides are books I consider to be well published. They have a distinct style and layout that uses pictures and text in equal balance. They are a good example of a popular series embarked upon by the publishers that have turned into a successful and reliable brand. It is also now possible to download (ten) of the travel guides to your mobile phone or hand-held device

To mention a second, more briefly if I may, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is an example of where the publisher has taken advantage, intentionally or not, of a conspiratorial post 9/11 clash of civilisations world (2003) and published a book that fed into the frenzy of religion, dark forces and heroes to become a big commercial success.

A book that has been very poorly published is Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground by Penguin Reds (2006). Essentially the book has been misrepresented for the sake of marketing. I understand this may have been done to attract new readers but the synopsis seems a little too patronising and the cover too contrived.