If you're in publishing, you know by now: The Other Jane Friedman is leaving HarperCollins. The most sensible-WTF summary is over at GalleyCat.

Once upon a time, I pinned up paper gravestones along the bottom of my cubicle walls whenever a project "died" (projects that were contracted but never made it to publication). I feel like reviving that in memory of Jane Friedman, CEO HarperCollins, 1997-2008.

The longer news story can be read over at the NY Observer.