This weekend aspiring comic book publishers, artists, and writers can take a four-hour crash course in “The Business of Comics” at the Asian American ComicCon: “For anyone who’s ever dreamed of joining the comics world, here’s your chance to get an insider’s look at the commercial side of graphical storytelling. Comic book pros from every corner of the biz introduce their fields and discuss breaking in, maintaining a career, and keeping up with what the future has in store.”
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 30.08 0.08
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 8.13 0
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 2.98 -0.2
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 77.63 -0.47
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 19.57 -0.1
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 31.92 -0.13
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 18.53 -0.04
News Corporation NWS 9.62 -0.1
Google Inc. GOOG 414.4 4.01
Apple Inc. AAPL 138.52 2.16