Book video: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources-and needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov. Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency, FSB-2, is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice-hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne

Book video: Daniel Clowes: Twentieth Century Eightball

Twentieth Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, written and drawn between 1988 and 1996. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," and over three dozen more

Book video: Dave Rimmer on Like Punk Never Happened

Like Punk Never Happened is the definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club is also the story of British pop music in the 1980s. Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop was originally published in 1986, and brought back into print by Faber Finds in July 2011

Interview with Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine - the new owners of Politics & Prose

In this exclusive interview, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, the new owners of Politics & Prose in Washington, DC, discuss their decision to purchase the renown bookstore and the future of independent bookselling

Alastair Reynolds to write new Doctor Who novel

British Science Fiction award-winner Alastair Reynolds is the latest author to try his hand writing a Doctor Who novel, after signing a deal with BBC Books. Editorial director Albert DePetrillo bought world rights from Robert Kirby at United Agents for an undisclosed sum. Harvest of Time will be published as a £16.99 hardback in 2013. It features the third Doctor, who was played by Jon Pertwee in the BBC series. The book is about the Doctor battling his arch-nemesis The Master on 20th-century earth and far into the future - The Bookseller

Angry Robot signs near-future novel

Angry Robot is to publish a debut novel by Canadian writer Madeline Ashby. vN is set in a near-future where robots and humans live side by side, and follows Amy, who has grown up with a cybernetic mother and human father. Alone of her kind, her "human-protecting failsafe" has stopped working and she's soon on the run from the law. Her only friend is a robot boy programmed to only like humans - The Bookseller

Google Books to distribute Harry Potter e-books

Google will handle distribution and purchases of the e-book versions of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, which is due out this fall. #jkrowling

Publishers Association plans second digital survey (UK)

The Publishers Association is launching its second digital survey this year and could introduce a quarterly digital survey by 2012. The trade body said the survey came in response to the "significant growth" in digital sales, with e-book sales up 318% between 2009 and 2010. General digital sales increased 38% in the same period. The PA has urged publishers to provide data to it and Book Marketing Limited, which will be producing the survey. It said it hopes to publish the second digital survey in September - The Bookseller

Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed in UK

A lawsuit which accused J.K. Rowling of copying the work of another children's book author when writing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has been dropped in Britain after the claimant failed to come up with the cash ordered by a judge as security. The estate of late author Adrian Jacobs said that the plot for the Potter novel, the fourth of seven boy wizard stories that have sold more than 400 millions copies, borrowed parts of his book "Willy the Wizard." - Reuters

2011 New England Book Festival (USA)

The 2011 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program celebrating the best books of the holiday season. The New England Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, young adult, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, photography/art, poetry, gay and compilations/anthologies. All entries must be in English. Our grand prize for the 2011 New England Book Festival winner is $1500 cash and a flight to our awards ceremony in Boston, to be held in January, 2012 at the Omni Parker Hotel