Private Eye Bookworm piece, 18th May 2001
FOLLOWING the startling news that ex-OUP editor Henry Hardy had given a glowing review to Andrew Malcolm's OUP-bashing book The Remedy, it is perhaps time to put out of their misery those who couldn't work out the identity of the editor - unnamed in Hardy's review - who started the whole affair off by promising to publish Malcolm's book Making Names. It was, of course, Hardy himself.
Bookworm is indebted to Dr Iain Stevenson of City University's publishing school, who has pointed out that Hardy's role in the whole debacle is worth two whole pages in Publishing Law by Hugh Jones (Routledge), the book being "required reading for any editor who wants to stay out of trouble a la Hardy".
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Click for the next item (lawsuit) in the Malcolm vs. Oxford saga or for Henry Hardy's THES review of The Remedy.