Days after purchasing the company that makes the Stanza e-reader, Amazon.com, Inc. made a quiet announcement about increased fees for wireless transfer of personal documents to a user’s Kindle. Here’s the note: “This fee is now based on the size of your file. The fee for Personal Document Service (via Whispernet) is 15 cents per megabyte rounded up to the next whole megabyte.”
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 30.61 0.46
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 5.82 0.08
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 2.93 0.2
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 78.96 -1.56
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 25.59 -0.53
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 33.94 0.04
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 19.62 -0.11
News Corporation NWS 9.26 0.14
