Random House isn't buying it.

They're PISSED. 

From the Harvard Crimson:

We find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous.

Go.  Read the whole thing.  It's pretty awesome.  He even threw in a plug for McCafferty's new book.  (Which, since yesterday, has jumped up 8 spots on the Amazon Sales Rank list.)

Did you see the Today Show segment?  As much as I loathe the Perky One, she really got a zinger in at the end.  And could KV have said 'genuine/ly' more?