Earlier this week, the Detroit Free Press looked at the salaries of current and former Borders Group, Inc. executives. Here's an excerpt: "Former CEO and President George Jones received $4.6 million in salary, stock and other compensation in fiscal 2008, which ended Jan. 31. Edward W. Wilhelm, former chief financial officer, was paid $2.3 million 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 29.07 1.27
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 5.33 0.09
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 2.23 0.21
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 84.46 3.85
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 26.13 0.96
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 33.36 0.02
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 20.09 1.05
News Corporation NWS 8.92 0.27