Lagardère Publishing Revenues Down 6%, eBook Sales Up

Lagardère Publishing, the company that owns the Hachette Book Group, reported €900 million in revenues in the first half of 2011, down 6 percent on a like-for-like basis from 2010. The company attributed these figures to “expected decline in sales of the last book in the Stephenie Meyer series, significant progress in eBooks in English-speaking countries and solid performances in France by the...