Rejection Was Valid

What the staff is complaining about is not censorship or academic freedom but capitalism; Cambridge University Press made a business decision about Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood.

A publishing house has the right to reject any manuscript it does not deem worthy of print. If Cambridge University Press deems Karakasidou's book unpublishable, Karakasidou has the right to peddle it to other presses. If the book has value, then the market system predicts that other presses will be willing to publish it. The staff quietly notes that the University of Chicago Press is willing.

Karakasidou case is not one of censorship or academic freedom. It is the textbook example of the market system doing its job. Matt Howitt '97