Thesis. Antithesis

Thesis: Someone whines (anonymously, of course) to GalleyCat about the Ragnarok of book publishing.

Antithesis: Janet Reid lays the smackdown.

Synthesis: Oh, screw it. Janet's right. Even if Borders does utterly fail -- meaning that no one else picks up their stores and distribution system, which I doubt even more than I doubt that Borders will go out of business to begin with -- the domino effect our anonymous whiner expects wouldn't happen.

Again: if you hate what you do, get out. If you hate the people you have to work with, get out.

And if your end of publishing is based on taking advantage of your partners, shame on you. It's never been that way in any of the bits of publishing I've worked in.