Books-A-Million (BAMM) because it enhanced its website....
(AP) INTERNET RETAILERS' STOCKS RISE: Shares of companies selling goods over the Internet rose Friday as investors bet that more consumers will do their holiday shopping online, boosting sales. Online music retailer CDNow Inc. rose $9.875 to $26.875. Software merchant Egghead.com Inc. rose $10.187 to $31.625. Internet auctioneer Onsale Inc. rose $37.625 to $97.625. Fellow auctioneer eBay Inc. rose $13.50 to $218. Books-A- Million Inc., a book merchant which introduced an enhanced Web site Wednesday, soared $26 to $38.937. Leading online book merchant Amazon.com Inc. rose $6.312 to $216.625. Egghead.com, which closed all of its bricks-and-mortar retail stores and added ".com" to its name earlier this year, said it plans to introduce a redesigned Web site on Monday that will allow it to offer products beyond software and personal computers. (Bloomberg)
