Despite Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’s remark that “people don’t read anymore,” his company has a mysterious page-turning patent registered. Whatever they are doing with the patent, the company has earned a spot on our weekly Book Stock Watch.
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.
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 29.48 -1.15
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 7.64 0.18
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.41 -0.24
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 79.32 -2.28
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 19.69 -1.33
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.68 -0.99
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 19.2 -0.88
News Corporation NWS 9.98 -0.66
Google Inc. GOOG 408.49 -10.5
Apple Inc. AAPL 140.02 -2.81