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Why are publishers so shitty?

Every Springer textbook we buy seems to have been printed as cheaply as possible (because it is). The binding is always fucked, the spine always splits etc. It's just so frustrating to spend 30£+ on textbooks and then they're absolute turd quality. We'd like to stop buying Springer but there's too much good stuff they publish.
Other publisher tiers: Cambridge University Press are OK. The London Math. Soc. texts they print are nice. Best are Princeton University Press, who are cheap and use string binding.
Also why is it absolutely impossible to find a reasonably priced copy of Munkres - Topology that isn't a pajeet edition?