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Love and time travel: Historical fiction novelist Christine Trent will meet fans during booksigning
marieg@herald-mail.comChristine Trent is a bit of a travel guide — but not in the traditional sense. She might take you to far-off places and breathtaking locales. You’ll meet interesting and influential people and get a glimpse of their lives and careers....Tags: Books, Services and Shopping, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Used bookstore chain moving into former Borders building in Hagerstown
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comA used bookstore is moving into the former Borders Books & Music building on Garland Groh Boulevard in Hagerstown. Laura Collins, a spokeswoman for 2nd & Charles, said the used bookstore chain is planning to open in Hagerstown by the end of April....Tags: Services and Shopping, Books, Bankruptcy, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Love with a twist of art: Historical novelist will sign books in Boonsboro bookstore
marieg@herald-mail.comYou can’t always judge a book by its author. But if that book is written by Alyson Richman, there’s a good chance the storyline will be woven around art. She has told the tale of a young Japanese man who studied with the Impressionists in...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Interest, Artists, Washington, DC, World War II (1939-1945)
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Spence Perry: Amazon's gain has been our loss
Some think the end of the bookstore began in Washington County more than 20 years ago when Hatcher’s bookstore burned on West Washington Street. It was a spectacular fire. I learned about it on the road from a picture in the New York Times. It...Tags: Books, Services and Shopping, Religion and Belief, Washington, DC, The New York Times
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Romance Writers of America names Turn the Page's Janeen Solberg as Bookseller of the Year
marieg@herald-mail.comThere are those who believe bookstores — the ones that offer reading material in the paper and ink variety — will one day go the way of vinyl records. Bookstores will become dinosaurs. Hardcovers and paperbacks will vanish from the...Tags: Romance (genre), Services and Shopping, Books, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Washington County Public Schools to look at total electronic adoption
julieg@herald-mail.comThe number of iPads being used in Washington County Public Schools could significantly increase in the next school year, according to Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox. A request for the Washington County Board of Education to approve the purchase of...Tags: Electronics, Services and Shopping, Books, Apple iPod, Science and Technology
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Four Tri-State-area authors publish new books
chrisc@herald-mail.comA novel about the struggle of good and evil. A memoir recalling self healing after living as a victim of abuse. A children’s story about leaving a treat for Santa on Christmas Eve. And a story collection that includes a lesson on how not to get your...Tags: Florida, Christmas, Human Interest, Washington County, Holidays
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Interview with Stephanie Hochschild, new owner of The Book Stall at Chesnut Court
If a predisposition to love literature were genetic, Stephanie Hochschild would be a gene carrier. Her mother is a librarian at the National Library of Medicine in her hometown of Bethesda, Md., and her aunt was a high school librarian in Florida. Her...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Books, Arts and Culture, Media Industry, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Apple executive Eddy Cue defends e-book deals at antitrust trial
NEW YORK — Eddy Cue, the Apple Inc. executive in charge of negotiating the company's controversial e-book deals, defended how the tech giant started its online bookstore as he made his highly anticipated appearance on the witness stand in a...
Tags: Antitrust Issues, Apple iTunes Radio, Lawyers, Book, Books
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Amazon.com expands its grocery delivery service to Los Angeles
Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., known for its speedy distribution of books, electronics and other consumer goods, is now trying to break open the grocery market. The AmazonFresh service, running since 2007 in the retailer's Seattle hometown,...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Publix Super Markets Inc., E-Commerce Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Can Booklikes be the next Goodreads?
We're swamped with social media sites. There's Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr and Path. And Instagram, and Pinterest. For book lovers, there are Goodreads and LibraryThing. Do we really need another site? Maybe. Some of the biggest social media sites...
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All eyes on Apple as e-book price-fixing trial begins
Apple headed to court Monday, as its e-book price fixing trial begins. The U.S. Justice Department alleged last year that Apple had conspired with five publishers to set the prices for e-books when it was planning to launch the iPad and enter the e-book...
Tags: Tim Cook, News Corp., Trials, David Foster Wallace, Book
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