books and magazines

Ed and Ann Berlin's professional lives took a fresh turn when they took over as owners of the 10-year-old Ivy Bookshop in January, 2012. She had years of experience as a book publishing executive, he had devoted much of his professional life to the technical side of finance, but neither had run a retail store. The work has been harder than Ed Berlin thought at first, but he said they've maintained 8-to-10 percent sales growth every year and stuck to their commitment to high literary quality.

By Arthur Hirsch

Feb 13, 2015

Inside GreenRow Books, which opened Oct. 1, candles and coffee mugs adorn shelves filled with tomes. A pair of vintage green oars hangs above the cash register. Owner Beth Panageotou, 39, made comfort a priority by using rustic, farmhouse-style decor in her store, but what makes GreenRow Books different from other bookstores is its ability to connect with its readers through a community of book clubs.

Random House to expand Westminster operations

This semester, the University System of Maryland is exploring reducing that cost to zero with "open-source" electronic textbooks.

They were novels discussed in whispers during class, passed around groups of friends and read by flashlight late into the night.

Hudson's Corner

Hampden Column

Library users can now read books online and on e-readers like Kindle and Nook that they can check out of their branches.. But the technology is new and expensive for the library system.

The bride looked radiant in her pink and white dress, sans the veil.

Children's author Laurel Snyder of Atlanta, grew up in Radnor-Winston and went to Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, said the influence of Baltimore colors her works. She is one of five former Baltimoreans and authors who will sit on a panel called Baltimore Bred, at the Baltimore Book Festival.

That the function of culling books generates money for buying new books is a good way to handle the task, whether it's through book sales on site or the discounted selling of large quantities of lesser titles.

Jo Keller squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is now slowly introducing them to her own young children, who are savoring volumes with their mother's childhood scribblings inside.

The Berlin family wants to continue to curate the selection the Ivy Bookshop is known for, but expand online presence

Saying that money had been wasted and school system policies had not been followed in the purchases of books and writing of curriculum, school board members asked administrators Tuesday night for reassurances that similar mistakes would not be made in the future.

It's almost here. Just a few more weeks until the 16th annual book sale held the first weekend of September each year at the Shepherd of the Glen Lutheran Church, on Burnt Woods Road.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is launching two pilot programs aimed at putting into customers' hands not just virtual titles, but the electronic devices with which to read them.

Convenience stores should show more responsibility when it comes to smutty magazines

Howard County residents are 'bummed' as the franchise liquidates its 399 stores

The news that Borders was finally giving up the ghost and closing its doors after 40 years came as no real surprise. It was, according to The Wall Street Journal this week, the "first major casualty of the digital era in buying and reading books."

For home decorators and artists alike, books are the new bricks. They pile them up, paint them, and drip wax over them.