Book Stock Watch: Price Wars and Borders

The Motley Fool took a hard look at Borders this week, writing: “Circuit City, once a well-known retail fixture, is no more. If it can’t survive this holiday season’s impending price war, bookseller Borders (NYSE: BGP) could be next.”

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 31.06 0.34
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 8.03 0.26
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 1.75 -0.19
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 132.97 2.44
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 20.05 -0.04
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 37.04 0.56
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 25.73 0.13
News Corporation NWS 14.81 0.33
Google Inc. GOOG 572.05 4.2
Apple Inc. AAPL 204.45 2.46
Sony Corporation SNE 28.35 0.11

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