BN’s Quarter Strong frontlist releases helped Barnes & Noble to a 1.7 percent same-store sales increase at BN stores for the first quarter, with total revenue of $1.145 billion. The new titles helped BN.com in particular to an 8 percent gain over a year ago, to $93.8 million. But the company lost $1.7 million, or three cents a share — better than their previous guidance, but worse than what analysts were expecting (the consensus was a penny a share of profit). And BN says the loss was mitigated because another 3 cents per share of expenses related to store openings […]
