Top stories
Top stories over the past month
- Johnson wins Australian Fiction Prize
- Best of the best books of 2024
- Number of publishing start-ups using AI explodes
- Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series
- Inaugural Australian Fiction Prize shortlist announced
- S&S acquires Gould memoir
- Black Friday sales up 4% on last year
- Osborne-Crowley longlisted on Gordon Burn Prize
- Report finds acute shortage of skilled workers in publishing roles
- Ampersand Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
Top stories since 1 January 2024
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
- S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
- Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Wiley, OUP confirm AI partnerships
- CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
- Former Hachette Livre CEO launches publisher, partners with S&S
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- New year 2025 preview: Fiction
- New year 2025 preview: Nonfiction
- New year 2025 preview: CYA
- ‘I do, in fact, belong here’: Looking back and forward with the 2024 Open Book interns
- ‘There is nothing else quite like it’: Terri-ann White on Sharjah
- A year of Australian audiobooks: 2025 preview
- New year 2025 preview: Poetry
- Kate Kemp on ‘The Grapevine’
- Kate Kemp recommends
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- Teens and the ‘book slump’: Why we should diagnose a situation rather than an identity
- ‘A service we wish to recommit to and double down on’: Shant Kradjian on Booktopia’s distribution services, staffing, and plans to rebuild trust
- Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
- Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
- Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
- The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
- Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
- Romantasy, audio and b-format: Bookseller and publisher predictions for 2024
- AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Top Junior stories
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP), stars, reviewed by Becca Whitehead
- (nonfiction): Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (fiction): The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Denise Jarrott
- (younger_readers): Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (fiction): Every Last Suspect (Nicola Moriarty, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (fiction): Shadows of Winter Robins (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (fiction): The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (nonfiction): How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (fiction): The Lost Letters of Rose Carey (Julie Bennett, S&S), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (picture_book): Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (fiction): A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Joy Lawn
- (young_adult): Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Katy Briggs
- (fiction): The Work (Bri Lee, A&U), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (younger_readers): The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (picture_book): Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog), stars, reviewed by Baran Rostamian
- (fiction): Love from Scratch (Amy Hutton, S&S), stars, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman
- (nonfiction): Jilya (Tracy Westerman, UQP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (young_adult): I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Ann Liang, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Charlotte Callander
- (fiction): What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Jemma Morrison