Lagardere has announced preliminary figures for their fourth quarter and fiscal year. The pulishing unit had sales of 595 million euros for the final quarter powered by the “exceptional performance” of Stephenie Meyer in the US a “sold” sales of illustrated books in France, offsetting a “slowdown in sales” in the UK. Meyer sold 8 million books in the US in December alone, and over 28 million books in the year. Though they publish her in the UK as well, “success of Stephenie Meyer only partially compensated for the departure of James Patterson to another publisher and the non-recurrence of […]