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. Books-A-Million (+ 149%)

2. Amazon.com (+ 144%)

3. Apple Inc. (+ 125%)

4. Borders Group (+ 115%)

5. The New York Times Co. (+ 76%)

6. Google Inc. (+ 72%)

7. News Corp. (+ 53%)

8. McGraw-Hill Companies (+ 52%)

9. Pearson PLC (ADR) (+ 48%)

10. John Wiley & Sons (+ 17%)

11. Barnes & Noble (+ 16%)

12. Thomson Reuters (+ 0%)

13. Courier Corp. (– 22%)

The data, derived from Google Finance, is as of the close of business on January 29, 2010. Note that I’ve rounded down to the nearest whole percent.