The recession can’t stop book fairs. CBS News reports: “According to a recent report from the Scholastic Corporation, revenues from fairs for the nine months ending Feb. 28 was $261.2 million, virtually unchanged from the same ninth-month period a year earlier.”
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 GalleyCat readers–including company name, symbol, current stock price, and price increase or decrease at week’s close.
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 24.41 0.25
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 4.61 -0.07
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 0.99 -0.06
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 78.17 1.83
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 23.17 0.77
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.87 0.49
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 17.45 0.62
News Corporation NWS 8.79 0.25