Books-A-Million Inc. Q1 Sales Up 2%

Books-A-Million Inc. made bookselling headlines this week, reporting that sales for the first quarter of 2009 rose to $118.2 million–a two percent increase compared to the same quarter last year.

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 30.84 0.34
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 6.75 0.56
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 2.31 0.06
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 75.64 -0.32
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 25.12 0.52
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 30.93 -0.2
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 19.25 -0.62
News Corporation NWS 10.2 0.37

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