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Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Tue Mar 25 06:34:39 PST 2003


On 25/3/03 2:22 pm, "Steven McGraw" <stmcgraw at vt.edu> wrote:


>> The Murdochites are in full roar,
>
> Isn't Murdoch mercenary rather than ideological? I mean, he published
> Moore's book _Stupid White Men._

If Moore's Preface to the English edition is accurate, HarperCollins printed 50,000 copies of SWM but then refused to ship them to bookshops in the wake of 11 September 2001, insisting that Moore rewrite half of the text, which he then refused to do. Only a mass lobby of HarperCollins by America's librarians (which generated publicity in Publisher's Weekly) got HC to change its corporate mind.

Is mercenary/ideological an exhaustive binary?

HarperCollins published No Logo, too.

Chris



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