 
            Tracks of my tears: where does the fault lie when books fail to hit?
            Does the publishing industry have a gambling problem? And, if so, who loses? A recent long-read in Canadian magazine The Walrus raised the thorny issue of who is blamed when a book does not sell, suggesting that responsibility is placed unfairly on the shoulders of authors, who may struggle to get future deals if earlier books have bad “sales track”.
        
    
 
    
 
    
 
    
 
    
 
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            