One such imprint was HarperEdge, formed last year by rapacious billionaire Rupert Murdoch's giant HarperCollins as part of Harper San Francisco, its West Coast subsidiary. Reich's departure has left the HarperEdge staff floundering in a sea of rumors, most of them focused on fears that HarperCollins NY will close the entire San Francisco operation. Cyberhysteria, or at least the HarperCollins strain, has a decidedly dark pathology. And their appetite now is for cake instead of losses. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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