Bertelsmann released a brief financial update on the first nine months of the year. In the third quarter, Bertelsmann’s sales were approximately €4.4 billion ($4.66 billion at current exchange rates), compared to €4.9 billion last year. They say top titles in the quarter for Penguin Random House were Nicholas Sparks’ Counting Miracles (published in Germany and referred to in the release as Our Time of Wonder) and Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus. For the year-to-date, the company’s sales were down 8.4 percent to €13.4 billion ($14.2 billion), still attributed to the sale of Majorel. Organic growth for the year stands at […]
