Book Stock Watch: Amazon Tweets

Just days after Amazon rocked the Apple App Store with a free iPhone reader, the bookseller made more business headlines for Twitter usage. Techflash studies how a number of Amazon employees and executives use the social networking site–noting that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos invested in Twitter during its infancy.

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 GalleyCat readers–including company name, symbol, current stock price, and price increase or decrease at week’s close.

The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 17.64 -0.25
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 2.5 0.15
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 0.54 0.01
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 61.69 -3.08
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 15.81 -0.12
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 28.37 -1.35
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 9.5 0.11
News Corporation NWS 6 -0.09

(Thanks to jafurtado for that news item.)

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