Book Stock Watch: Amazon Dips

By Jason Boog 

a.com_logo_RGB1.jpgAmazon.com, Inc.’s stock dipped today, following a second quarter earnings report released yesterday. As MSN Money reports: “investors haven’t been pleased with the report, sending shares of AMZN down nearly 7% in Friday’s early trading.”

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 32.53 -0.19
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 11.54 0.88
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.94 -0.12
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 86.49 -7.38
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 23.32 -0.17
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.98 0.11
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 21.88 0.19
News Corporation NWS 11.55 -0.07
Google Inc. GOOG 446.72 9.38
Apple Inc. AAPL 159.9 2.08