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Judge Denies Amazon’s Motion to Dismiss BookLocker Lawsuit

booklocker.jpgThis week a federal judge denied Amazon.com’s (AMZN) request to dismiss an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the print-on-demand company, BookLocker. According to MaineBiz, the suit argues that “Amazon’s demand that publishing companies use a specific printer in order to sell their books in the Amazon marketplace” violates federal antitrust laws.

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 24.62 -0.76
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 10.67 -0.71
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 2.93 -0.02
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 89.85 -1.19
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 21.65 0.04
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 34.16 -0.42
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 23.49 -0.58
News Corporation NWS 13.24 -0.05
Google Inc. GOOG 484.58 -2.62
Apple Inc. AAPL 184.88 4.02
Sony Corporation SNE 27.16 -0.86

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Thursday May 23: Real Talk about Life after Publication

These days, writers aren’t just writers: They’re social-media mavens, seasoned public speakers, and one-person publicity machines. And they still have to find time to write their books! Find out what life is like once you've landed that dream book contract in a free web chat with young-adult authors Elizabeth Norris (Unraveling and Unbreakable) and Brodi Ashton (Everneath and Everbound) — plus special guest Kristin Rens, editor at HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray. Thursday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m. ET. on Figment.com.