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Doubleday Publishing announces big layoffs

The NYT is reporting that Doubleday Publishing will lay off 10 percent of its employees. The company denies the move is related to delays in the delivery of a new novel by Dan Brown, the author of the DaVinci Code. I hope that’s true because I don’t care how popular that book was, if ten percent of your staff is depending on the writing of Dan Brown, you are already in trouble.

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