Yesterday Sony (SNE) challenged Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) by pledging to adopt an ePub format for digital books, making it easier to share across platforms. The plan generated plenty of headlines and criticism, so GalleyCat has added Sony to the 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.
-Name- -Symbol- -Last price- -Change-
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 28.6 -0.4
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 10 -0.2
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.51 -0.16
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 83.58 -1.02
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 20.87 -2.11
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 30.18 0.11
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 23.67 -0.43
News Corporation NWS 12.77 -0.24
Google Inc. GOOG 460 -2.28
Apple Inc. AAPL 166.78 -1.64
Sony Corporation SNE 27.92 -0.51