Book, newspaper and magazine stock watch

Here’s an update to the list of 14 book, newspaper, magazine and publishing stocks I’m watching, ranked by year-to-date performance:

1. Borders Group (+ 250%)

2. Books-A-Million (+ 177%)

3. Amazon.com (+ 165%)

4. Apple Inc. (+ 134%)

5. Google Inc. (+ 90%)

6. Barnes & Noble (+ 56%)

7. Pearson PLC (ADR) (+ 45%)

8. News Corp. (+ 43%)

9. McGraw-Hill Companies (+ 29%)

10. The New York Times Co. (+ 15%)

11. John Wiley & Sons (+ 5%)

12. Thomson Reuters (- 6%)

13. Courier Corp. (– 27%)

14. Bertelsmann AG (? %)

The data, derived from Google Finance, is as of the close of business on November 30, 2009. Note that I’ve rounded up or down to the nearest whole percentage. I’ll be updating the list at the end of every month.