After a weak second quarter, trade publishing sales rebounded as expected for Lagardere Publishing, with revenues of 626 million euros for third quarter. That’s a 4.1 percent gain over sales of 601 million euros a year ago, when the company had a particular weak third quarter; sales are still below the same period from 2010, and only gained one-tenth of a percent after the effects of currency exchange. Results were boosted by the release of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy right before the end of the quarter, raising trade sales by 7.3 percent in the US, 17 percent in the […]
