Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MFST), and Yahoo (YHOO) have joined the Open Book Alliance in opposing the Google Books settlement. The NY Times describes the Alliance as: “a nonprofit group that has been critical of the settlement, plans to make a case to the Justice Department that the arrangement is anticompetitive.”
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 29.67 0.62
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 11.66 0.35
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.69 0.12
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 85 0.91
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 21.05 0.79
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 32.71 1.01
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 24.38 0.36
News Corporation NWS 12.97 0.2
Google Inc. GOOG 465.24 4.83
Apple Inc. AAPL 169.22 2.89
Sony Corporation (ADR) SNE 26.61 0.11
