Lagardere Publishing rebounded in the first quarter of 2013, with sales of 419 million euros up 6.6 percent (or 25 million euros) on a topline basis, and up 7.9 percent according to the company’s like-for-like comparison. Hachette Book Group USA was a bright spot (following a soft holiday quarter to end 2012), up 14.9 percent, thanks to “a host of new works” and strong backlist film tie-ins including Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and A Story Of God And All Of Us by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. “As usual, sales of […]
