Soft First Quarter for Barnes & Noble First quarter same-stores sales fell slightly at Barnes & Noble’s superstores, down 0.3 percent, and the company expects a bigger comparable drop of 4.3 percent for the second quarter given comparisons to last year’s release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (Potter had powered a gain of 4.3 percent a year ago.) Overall, Barnes & Noble stores had sales of $980 million, as BN.com sales were flat at $91 million, and B. Dalton continued its decline to $23 million (down 1.8 percent on a same-store basis). Net earnings of $10 million for […]