Berteslmann released its financial report for the fiscal year 2013, which included the first-ever annual revenues for the combined Penguin Random House entity. Including a half-year’s worth of revenue from Penguin, total sales of €2.655 billion for PRH (plus Random House Germany, which remains a separate company, but was reported with Bertelsmann’s book publishing interests) were 23.9 percent higher than the €2.142 billion reported for Random House’s record-setting 2012. But after adjusting for currency and excluding Penguin, revenues naturally decreased compared to last year’s “exceptional success” of the FIFTY SHADES trilogy. (The three books still sold another seven million units in […]
