Big publishers count on big blockbuster fiction to make their profits – your Tom Clancys, your John Grishams – their megasales are what puts the shine on a bookseller’s holiday season. Except this year. The big pop fiction isn’t selling like it usually does…”Crichton appears down. Clancy is down. The Turow is not making its numbers. All the big-ticket fiction has been suffering the last six to eight months.”