Barnes & Noble’s Q3 Report Sends Bad Tidings to Publishers Same-store sales inched up 0.9 percent in the third quarter at Barnes & Noble’s superstores, for a total of $895 million, as B. Dalton continues to fade away, down to $35.9 million for the quarter (with comparable store sales sliding 3.3 percent). And at BN.com, pro-forma sales dropped 8 percent, to $91.8 million. The headline on most third-party accounts, however, is that profits dropped to $7.6 million, down from $10.2 million a year ago. At the BN superstores alone, operating profit fell to $12 million, from $15 million a year […]