Today the Wall Street Journal studied the ongoing re-organization at Barnes & Noble Inc.: “The New York retailer … said Friday it has brought its small in-house publishing operations under its Sterling Publishing unit and laid off a ‘handful’ of employees.”
GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance of the major companies that influence the bookselling business. We created this chart with eight publicly-traded publishing stocks hand-picked by our readers–including company name, symbol, current stock price, and price increase or decrease at week’s close.
-Name- -Symbol- -Last Price- -Change-
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 33.03 0.67
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 10.01 0.34
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.99 0.03
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 88.23 2.38
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 22.11 0.64
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.07 0.01
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 19.19 -0.01
News Corporation NWS 11.32 0.51
Google Inc. GOOG 430.17 -0.08
Apple Inc. AAPL 152.99 1.24