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If it's textual criticism you're interested in and you're just starting out, I'd recommend the following two books to wet your appetite. They both will have bibliographies to get you deeper into the study as you wish.
David C. Parker. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts. (ISBN: 978-0521719896)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521719895/
Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Fourth Edition. (ISBN: 978-0195161229)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/019516122X/
The two books by Trobisch (no 'e' nor umlaut) you mentioned are really great, The First Edition of the New Testament particularly. I would recommend it to anyone interested in NT studies.
Also from DC Parker is An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts, a truly deep dive into a survey of the extant manuscripts. It's really dry, but comprehensive.
Depends what you're into. If you want some nice primer stuff on the field of textual criticism and the mechanics and practice of it, with some discussion of philosophical/methodological concerns, I would recommend David C Parker's 'An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts'.. I believe Ehrman spoke highly of this book (with criticism, as always) at a meeting of the SBL a few years back, and also said he thought Parker was one of the leading critics in the world. So that should give you an idea of where Parker sits in the scheme of things.
If you're just looking for arguments about various trends in scholarship (apart from maybe the idea of the 'original' or 'authentic' text, which is one of Parker's research interests and features here), this is not it. But frankly, more people who weigh into these discussion haven't taken the time to look at the actual mechanics of the field, to learn about what texts people use and how they make judgements about them, to learn about the Greek and versional evidence and how to actually read MSS. If that sounds valuable or interesting, this is a good book to pick up. Academic level, but probably pitched to an undergrad level, and is designed to be an introduction (although as an introduction, it is incomplete and there are some things it just doesn't go into, probably as a concession to length and complexity).
Also, because it's not polemically geared like most of the popular level stuff, it will act as a good palette cleanser and will give you good tools to use regardless of what other material, from whomever you choose to read it.