Possible Clues:

• Made accountable for one's misdeeds
• Called to account like a literary villain?
• Punished hoodlum, in empty backstreet ransacking boot, with fine
• You may take it as read that one is punished
• Punished for having failed to find volume oneself
• Perhaps bound to have been published and punished
• Published for punishment?
• When published, bound to be made to answer for one's sins
• Taken like this, one is bound, perhaps, to get one's desserts