Robin – and his harmonium, which we would hear wafting out of his office from time to time – joined Oxford as academic publisher in 1978 and, by the time of his retirement in 1988, rose to Oxford publisher, managing OUP's entire academic publishing programme and second in command to me, as chief executive.
In August 2011, Guardian Books launched Guardian Shorts, an ebook-only publishing programme.
It keeps our spirits up and we can allocate it to our continuing publishing programme.
On Friday, the number two retailer Borders, in partnership with Lulu, will launch the Borders personal publishing programme at the first of 13 stores across the nation.
And this is to ignore a six-decades long publishing programme that featured everything from Nabokov's Lolita to the works of authors as varied as Saul Bellow, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Speer and Pope John Paul II.
Robinson, who previously worked with Ono on the republication in 2001 of Lennon's interviews with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone as Lennon Remebers, said that Ono's "commitment to social justice and environmental concerns, expressed in artistic forms that are adventurous and beautiful, precisely mirrors the values we are seeking to build our publishing programme around".
Undeterred, he continued to campaign for the same objectives and as a director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation from 1965 he was the driving force behind an extensive publishing programme in support of CND, against the war in Vietnam, on behalf of political prisoners, and exposing war crimes.
Washday was published in 1964 by School Publications (the publishing arm of the Department of Education) on behalf of the government of Aotearoa New Zealand, as part of its educational publishing programme to support universal state schooling provision, in the post-WWII modernist era of national expansion and Māori urbanisation.
