Amazon’s Warning: Book Stock Watch

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) made the biggest bookselling headlines this week. The WSJ reported that Amazon.com Inc. mailed a letter to California lawmakers, warning that the company will “end its business with marketing affiliates in the state if legislation passes forcing the Seattle e-commerce company to collect sales tax from California customers.”

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 29.64 -0.08
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 7.04 0.49
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.45 0.41
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 83.88 1.68
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 20.65 0.05
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 33.04 -2
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 20.09 -0.49
News Corporation NWS 10.53 -0.02
Google Inc. GOOG 425.32 9.55

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