I'll admit to being a little worried about what might happen to my book, but how much worse it must be for all those employees waiting for pink slips to appear on their desks or not. God, that sucks. My heart goes out to them.
If you need a hollow, cynical laugh, check out the comments at the bottom of the link. It's all the usual "publishers have to try out new voices" and "publishers can't market" and "TV and texting is destroying our culture" knee-jerk pablum you expect from internet know-it-alls.
Apparently, it's all the fault of celebrity books.
