ABIA 2025 business award shortlists announced
Books+Publishing, in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association, has announced the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2025 business award shortlists.
The ABIA 2025 business award shortlists are:
Bookshop of the Year
- Beaufort Street Books
- Gleebooks Dulwich Hill
- Matilda Bookshop
- Paper Bird
- Potts Point Bookshop
- Riverbend Books
Book Retailer of the Year
- Dymocks
- QBD Books
- Readings
- Tales & Tomes
- WHSmith
Multicategory Retailer of the Year
- Amazon
- BIG W
- Kmart
- The Nile
Commissioning Editor/Publisher of the Year
- Anthea Bariamis
- Jane Pearson
- Jeanmarie Morosin
- Rachel Bin Salleh
- Rebecca Young
- Vanessa Radnidge
Marketing/Publicity Campaign of the Year
- Bake with Brooki (Brooke Bellamy, PRH)
- Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Hachette)
- Juice (Tim Winton, PRH)
- Personal Penguin campaign (PRH)
- When the Moon Hatched (Sarah A Parker, HarperCollins)
- Where Is the Green Sheep? (Mem Fox, illus by Judy Horacek, PRH) 20th anniversary campaign
Children’s Publisher of the Year
- Affirm Press
- Allen & Unwin Australia
- Fremantle Press
- Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
- Magabala Books
- Penguin Random House Australia
Small Publisher of the Year
- Fremantle Press
- Magabala Books
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Rockpool Publishing
- Smith Street Books
- University of Queensland Press (UQP)
Publisher of the Year
- Allen & Unwin Australia
- Hachette Australia
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Simon & Schuster Australia
- Thames & Hudson Australia.
ABIA business awards are presented annually for achievements in bringing Australian books to readers. The announcement of the 2025 business shortlists follows last month’s release of the ABIA book award shortlists.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the awards. The winner in each category will be announced at a ceremony at Zinc Fed Square in Naarm/Melbourne on Wednesday 7 May.
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