books and magazines

• Business

Five Questions for Ed Berlin, co-owner of the Ivy Bookshop

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

• Howard County

Ellicott City's new GreenRow Books builds community through book clubs

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.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 12/24/14

• Maryland

Books Sandwiched In offers holiday gift suggestions for every type of reader

• Baltimore City Paper

Shopping

• Baltimore City Paper

Goods & Services

• Maryland

Random House to expand Westminster operations

Random House to expand Westminster operations

• Maryland

Random House to expand Westminster operations

• Colleges and Universities

New strategy would drop college textbook costs to zero

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

• Maryland

Bookstore attempting to Fund-A-Home for arts

• Authors

Starring Lizzie Skurnick as herself: Hopkins grad revives young-adult fiction

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

• Maryland

Concert to feature 'traditional holiday favorites'

• Baltimore City

'Tis the season to give away books around the city

Hudson's Corner

• Lifestyle and Leisure

For businesses on The Avenue, charity begins at home

Hampden Column

• Maryland

Colleges, schools get started on the future with e-books

• Baltimore City

Baltimore libraries are now as close as your e-reader

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.

• Maryland

With courthouse closed, couple ties the knot at Annapolis Bookstore

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

• Maryland

Mitch Edelman: Reading opens window to the world

• Baby Products

Share Your Blessings: Where to donate this holiday season

• Authors

Children's Bookstore hosts panel of city-raised authors at Baltimore Book Festival

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.

• Maryland

Church cookbook sale offers "A Little Taste of Heaven"

• Arts and Culture

Editorial: At libraries, it's out with the old

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.

• Maryland

World Book Night comes to Main Street

• Religion and Belief

Lovers of books welcome at Violetville church bazaar April 28

• Baltimore City Paper

Asparagus: it makes your pee smell and is also delicious

• Maryland

Dolly Merritt: Magazines present challenge

• Maryland

Business Briefs

• Literature

For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice

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.

• Books

New owners ready to take over Ivy Bookshop

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

• Education

Baltimore Co. school board questions administrators over spending

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.

• Books

Shepherd of the Glen's annual book sale is a can't-miss event

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.

• Entertainment

Baltimore libraries will soon check out Nooks in addition to books

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.

• Opinion

Keep pornography away from our kids

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

• Books

Columbia Borders and Borders Express will be closed by September

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

• Books

Demise of Borders recalls the end of Remington's

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."

• Features

Design by the book

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Will Google Books kill print and paper libraries? Long live the new text?