Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has reported third quarter 2013 sales as part of revised SEC documents related to the company’s planned IPO. Trade sales were $45.6 million for the quarter, up $3 million (or 6.8 percent) compared to a year ago, and education sales were $504.6 million, in what the company notes is their most important period (“our business is dependent on our results of operations for the third quarter”). Those education sales were $53 million higher than last year, up 11.8 percent, and powered operating income of $107.5 million for the quarter, and net income of $105 million. The increase in […]