March 2025: Akme launches The Remedy 3.0 (original) (raw)
Essential reading for all who read: the amazing story of Malcolm v. Oxford and its aftermath, the most important contract case in the history of publishing
Reviews of Remedies 1 and 2
"I thoroughly enjoyed your synoptic devastation of OUP. It gave me a great deal of appalled pleasure - a shocking but riveting read. The whole story is sublimely and disgracefully English, the C. P. Snow underbelly: not the corridors of power, but the dingy moral hallways of ineptitude and vanity. I suppose vanity above all - it generally turns out to be the 'soul' of most academics. You leave them with no alternative - they will have to ignore you." - Simon Gray, playwright
"A connoisseur's case... It is the first time in living memory that Grub Street has won such a victory over its oppressors... Perhaps Oxford University should bring its heraldic crest into line with its present ethos. Instead of 'Dominus illuminatio mea', it should read 'Never give a sucker an even break'." - The Observer (click for articles pre-trial and post-appeal)
"I could not put The Remedy down. It is a fascinating read and as exciting as any thriller. Malcolm is a most remarkable man - he took on City Hall and won - and he is a natural writer. His description of the comeuppance of the OUnuchs is worthy of the great Trollope." - Jeffrey Simmons, literary agent
"Andrew Malcolm has written two excellent books. The Remedy is a gripping story of Oxford's ineptitude and skulduggery, which every publisher and every author should read. Malcolm's talents are considerable, he has a real gift for farce. His Scarfean caricatures of the key players are wonderful, some of the courtroom scenes are hilarious, and the final speech by one of the lawyers about royalties should be carefully avoided by those with weak ribs. The almost total silence of the media is sinister." - Henry Hardy, The Times Higher Education Supplement (click for review)
"The most powerful psychological thriller since Crime and Punishment." - Jack Parsons, Exeter University
"Absolutely riveting, fascinating and very instructive." - Jon Riley, Macmillan
"I read The Remedy with enormous interest... It is an horrific tale." - Robin Baird-Smith, Duckworth
"It is of course in the interest of the big academic publishers such as Oxford and Cambridge to suppress knowledge of the Malcolm case, which threatens the big profits they make out of academic authors, whom they too often mistreat." - Association of University Teachers (click for review)
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THE MALCOLM vs. OXFORD UNIVERSITY CASE INDEXES: I (1984-92) AND II (2001-02)
THE OXBRIDGE COLLEGE ACCOUNTS INDEX OR OUP ACCOUNTS INDEX
THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT OUP'S 'CHARITABLE STATUS'
THE HISTORY OF AKME AND OF THIS WEBSITE
THE AKME OXFORD CUTTINGS LIBRARY
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