The Opal Mehta controversy

I happened to be in the middle of reading "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" by Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan just when the news hit that many passages had been plagiarized from other recent novels. I hadn't read the others so the book felt fresh to me. However, it never should have been marketed as an adult novel: it's aYA book, through and through. Perfect for high school girls, but a bit cartoonish and name-dropping for my tastes. Now it sounds like Kaavya got caught up in a publishing whirlwind with Alloy Entertainment which co-holds the book's copyright and is in the business of "packaging" teen novels. I wonder just how much writing Katya did and how much was done by committee...a committee which may have pilfered similar words and ideas from other popular Young Adult novelists' works. So if you're an adult who's put this book on hold, just be aware that you may be disappointed in the fluffiness of it all. And since the book is being pulled from bookstore shelves and won't be re-issued, I wonder if libraries' copies will become collector's items or go for big bucks on eBay?