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Inflation, closed doors, horror, but the mood was up at the 2026 ABA conference

Wednesday, 17 June 2026    Books+Publishing
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More than one graph shown at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference in Canberra showed inflation steeply outpacing book sales. Yet the mood of the conference was positive and the trade exhibition bustling – with advance reading copies flying off publishers’ tables – perhaps reflecting NielsenIQ BookData statistics,...

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