Muurrbay: Seeding a publishing ecosystem in Aboriginal Languages
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Celebrating 40 years in 2026, the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative is a regional language centre with offices on Gumbaynggirr Country (Nambucca Heads) and Warrimay Country (Raymond Terrace) in...
What should we take away from the ADS crisis?
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
As September releases begin to reach booksellers, what have we learned from the distribution crisis at ADS? Booksellers have begun to receive stock from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS), after the...
Amplify Christmas picks
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
Books+Publishing recently shared publishers’ top picks for Christmas in genres from children’s picture books to illustrated nonfiction in our Christmas Preview. Here, Amplify Bookstore co-founders Jing Xuan Teo and Marina...
Pages HQ bookshop to open in Drouin
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Pages HQ is a new bookshop set to open in Drouin, Victoria on 1 September. Owner Sharyn Swanepoel tells Books+Publishing about the new store and her plans to involve the...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 14 August 2026
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to thought-provoking...
Agents, AI, trust and transparency: Local literary agents respond to situation “we all live in fear of”
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
In the world of generative AI, how can agents prepare to stand by their authors? Books+Publishing spoke to local agents about their approach. The recent news that an agent in...
“Sometimes they’d walk out with a butterfly guide as well because we got talking”: Lindy Jones on the tacit arts of bookselling
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
Bookseller Lindy Jones announced her retirement from Sydney specialist bookstore Abbey’s earlier this year. This followed a long career in the book industry, which included more than 30 years of...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 7 August 2026
Our Junior Book Club highlights new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time. From fun and imaginative adventures to books that spark curiosity and...
What’s next for traditional reading for young children? An excerpt from “Between Reading and Screens”
Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Between Reading and Screens is a forthcoming title from Melbourne University Press, authored by academics Sybil Nolan, Wonsun Shin, Katherine Day and Xin Pei, which seeks to surface “new research on digital...
“Books endure” at BookUp: The risks and rewards of taking our time
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
The 2026 BookUp conference was held in central Melbourne and online on 22 and 23 July. Books+Publishing commissioning editor Angela Glindemann reflects on the event’s industry day. For a few...
Aus audiobook report: “Frequent listening correlates with higher rates of reading in print and ebook formats”
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
The open access report, Audiobook Reading in Australia, uses survey data to explore listening behaviours, preferences and experiences, and compares these with other reading and cultural consumption, alongside demographic characteristics....
Lily and Hugo’s children’s bookstore to open in Sunbury
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Lily and Hugo’s bookstore for children will be opening soon in Sunbury, on the outskirts of Melbourne. Leigh Redman spoke with Books+Publishing about the new venture, which he and co-founder...
Eugen Bacon recommends
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
I recently read Kathleen Jennings’s Honeyeater (Picador, 2025) and it struck me as one of the most fascinating literary horrors I’ve read. It’s overwhelming in its darkness and waterlogged omens,...
Eugen Bacon on “Crimson in Quietus”
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author whose science fiction novel Crimson in Quietus (Meerkat Press, September) is set within the Sauútiverse, a shared fictional universe created by African and...
AI dominates global publishing conversation at IPA Congress
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Generative AI was the biggest topic of conversation at panel discussions during the International Publishers Congress, presented by the International Publishers Association (IPA) from 5 to 9 July in Kuala...
Explainer: What are the First Nations metadata standards?
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Former Books+Publishing editorial and production coordinator – and author and literary all-rounder – Jasmin McGaughey gives an update on an APA project at the intersection of inclusion and metadata: the...
Nadine Browne recommends
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
The last Australian books that really stayed with me were Kate Rossmanith’s Small Wrongs and Bri Lee’s Eggshell Skull. I read them close together, and they’ve become linked in my mind. Rossmanith’s book...
Nadine Browne on “Gone Guru”
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Nadine Browne is a Western Australian writer whose debut novel, Gone Guru (Fremantle Press, September), draws on her experience studying fiction at New York University under Joyce Carol Oates. Books+Publishing...
Meet the Rising Stars: Rachel Chopping
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Meet the Rising Stars: Caleb Vines
Monday, 20 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Meet the Rising Stars: Annie Zhang
Thursday, 16 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
“Only an oligarch could afford it”: Booksellers Aotearoa’s Renee Rowland on selling at RRP
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
As the Australian Booksellers Association proposes a tax offset to recognise the gap between booksellers’ cultural value and ability to remain in business, Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand association manager Renée...
Meet the Rising Stars: Skye Cusack
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Meet the Rising Stars: Jaimi Kuster
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Meet the Rising Stars: Alisa Ahmed
Monday, 13 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing with less than 10 years’ experience in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 10 July 2026
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to thought-provoking...
Tim Ayliffe on “Web of Spies”
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Bestselling crime author Tim Ayliffe’s children’s debut Web of Spies (S.I.G.M.A. #1) (Affirm Kids, September) is a middle-grade novel about a boy whose search for answers about his missing father...
Tim Ayliffe recommends
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
There are so many great Australian writers on the scene right now. Chris Hammer’s Legacy (Allen & Unwin) demonstrates why he’s an author at the height of his powers. While...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 3 July 2026
Our Junior Book Club highlights new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time. From fun and imaginative adventures to books that spark curiosity and...
“Even before the digital revolution, around 80% of books did not recoup the publisher’s investment”: Nathan Hollier on Australia’s history of rushed publishing
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
The argument that we are publishing books too quickly raises perennial questions about the nature of an industry with commercial but also cultural dimensions, and the obligation that publishers have...
