Book, newspaper and magazine stock watch

Here’s an update to the list of book, magazine, newspaper and publishing stocks I’m watching, ranked by performance since January 1, 2009:

1. Borders Group (+ 195%)

2. Books-A-Million (+ 164%)

3. Amazon.com (+ 162%)

4. Apple Inc. (+ 147%)

5. Google Inc. (+ 102%)

6. The New York Times Co. (+ 69%)

7. News Corp. (+ 66)

8. Pearson PLC (ADR) (+ 51%)

9. McGraw-Hill Companies (+ 45%)

10. Barnes & Noble (+ 27%)

11. John Wiley & Sons (+ 18%)

12. Thomson Reuters (- 5%)

13. Courier Corp. (– 20%)

The data, derived from Google Finance, is as of the close of business on December 31, 2009. Note that I’ve rounded up or down to the nearest whole percent. I’ll be updating the list at the end of every month.