Google (GOOG) made the biggest bookselling headlines this week, in a Congressional hearing about the proposed Google Books settlement as one government official opposed the deal. According to BayNewser, “the head of the U.S. Copyright Office told the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that the office opposes the settlement.”
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 27.69 0.1
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 11.97 -0.28
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.3 -0.04
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 84.54 0.69
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 20.52 -0.48
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 34.4 1.38
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 23.51 -0.68
News Corporation NWS 13.71 0.06
Google Inc. GOOG 472.14 1.2
Apple Inc. AAPL 172.16 -0.4
Sony Corporation SNE 27.25 0.26