Affirmations Publishing House is an established Australian brand with almost four decades in creating meaningful products that inspire connection, reflection and emotional wellbeing. With heartfelt messaging at the centre of what we do, we specialise in premium greeting cards and inspirational gift products that resonate with a mindful audience. Dan, Suzi and the Affirmations team offer outstanding service and customer satisfaction, beautiful products with premium papers, world class production standards and our commitment to ethical trade and sustainability.

Allen & Unwin is Australia’s leading independent publisher and fifteen times winner of ‘Publisher of the Year’. We publish a broad range of new titles each year, across literary and commercial fiction, general non-fiction, books for children and young adults. We publish the best in lifestyle titles from our Murdoch Books division and we also represent esteemed Independent UK publishers like Faber & Faber and Canongate among many others. We are Australian owned and operated, and international in our thinking, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and London, a global network of connected partners, and local lists that are unrivalled in scope and quality.

ANU Press publishes scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum, with particular strengths in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Knowledge, Asia and Pacific Studies, International Relations and Law.

Established as ANU E Press in 2004 to take advantage of new publishing opportunities enabled by developments in digital technology, the Press builds on earlier ANU publishing under the Australian National University Press imprint between the 1960s and 1990s.

The ANU Press is also recognised internationally as an innovative leader in open-access electronic publishing.

Founded in 2000, Black Inc. is an independent Australian publisher of quality non-fiction, fiction and poetry, based in Melbourne. Our imprints include the Quarterly Essay journal and La Trobe University Press books. We love ideas and stories. We are passionate about important new works of history, politics, biography, criticism and current affairs, as well as novels and poems that open up new worlds.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury is thrilled to be celebrating 15 years since it established an office in Sydney in 2010. 

Book Systems has been shipping your books since 1987 and is Australia’s go-to, dedicated book-shipper. Our express air import service gives booksellers the most cost-effective way to get their books from overseas suppliers to their bookstores – money saved on shipping is money spent on books. Publishers have relied on us for their sea freight and fulfilment requirements since the ’80s. With depots in Australia, New Zealand, China/HK, UK, and USA, Book Systems is your one-stop shop for exceptional value shipping.

Established in 1921, Books+Publishing is Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements and classifieds. Books+Publishing is also the only source of pre-publication reviews of Australian and New Zealand books.

BrownTrout has produced calendars for decades, beginning in 1986. We have come a long way from our humble beginnings as a family business that produced three unique calendars our first year. Over time we emerged as a pioneer and an industry leader, eventually growing to become the largest calendar company in the world. We have affiliate BrownTrout companies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and distribution worldwide.

Cambridge University Press is a world-leader in research, education and academic publishing. We currently publish more than 380 peer-reviewed academic journals and thousands of books for research and higher education. We help people across the world to realise their potential, benefiting society and the planet. Through our products and services, we inform action around some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change, and we are committed to reducing our environmental impact.

Circle is a complete point of sale, stock management and online sales solution for booksellers. It is an ideal platform for bricks and mortar stores that want to be online, but don’t want the hassle of managing a website and the shop floor independently.

With Circle, all sales (in-store or online) are administered through a single cloud-based system that is accessible from anywhere, like your online email account. It knits together your existing business systems for email, accounting and eftpos; and functions on any device.

Five Senses Education has over 50 years experience as an educational supplier, operating as one of Australia’s leading textbook suppliers to schools and a retailer of quality educational toys, children’s books and school workbooks and text. In the last decade Five Senses Education has expanded its operations to include a publishing and wholesale distribution arm and supplies over 2500 titles to tuition centres, bookshops and other retailers in Australia and the region. We have state of the art printing facilities and are proud to publish and print textbooks, workbooks and custom exercise books in our Sydney warehouse.

Proudly not for profit, we believe in the power of storytelling, and the value of reading and sharing perspectives as a way of enriching our culture and understanding. 

Fremantle Press is an independent book publisher, based in Western Australia, and embedded in the Australian cultural landscape. Established in 1976 and charged with giving voice to Western Australian writers and bringing stories about this place to the world, the Press has published more than a thousand titles and has launched the careers of an extraordinary number of diverse, award-winning and bestselling storytellers, including Indigenous writers and artists. 

Fremantle Press invests in storytellers from all walks of life and across all genres. We ensure that all Australian’s get to see themselves represented in books and we improve literacy by getting books into the hands of young readers via our Books for Little Bookaburras program. Fremantle Press is renowned for producing quality works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature.

Hachette Australia is a team of expert publishers and passionate readers dedicated to discovering and supporting talented writers and working with them to craft exceptional stories.

We select the very best, whatever the genre – from high-quality commercial fiction to literary award-winners, children’s picture books and adventure stories to memoirs and history, lifestyle and sport. And then we pour 100 years of publishing excellence into every page, bringing them to readers in the formats that they love.

Hardie Grant Publishing is inspired by its authors and their ideas to create beautiful, accessible, timely and covetable books. Steadfastly independent and originated in Melbourne but with a global outlook, we have been reaching all kinds of readers for 25 years, both geographically and in the types of books we publish.

We are proud to have five publishing imprints. In Melbourne, there are Hardie Grant Books Melbourne, Hardie Grant Explore and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing. In 2021 we launched our first fiction imprint, Ultimo Press in Sydney. In 2023, we published our very first books commissioned in North America at Hardie Grant Books San Francisco.Defined by a commitment to quality, from author care to award-winning design, we are determined to publish original works that stop readers in their tracks, hold their interest and are widely recommended.

HarperCollins occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations we are the oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century – and the most forward thinking in terms of our transition to the global digital world of today.

HQ is an innovative publisher of vibrant, authentic, bestselling fiction and nonfiction for smart and curious readers. HQ is a separate division of HarperCollins.

Through the decades, our publishing has been distinguished by a commitment to quality and creativity plus an innate understanding of what Australians and New Zealanders want to read and how. Authors and their work have always been at the heart of our company – without authors there would be no HarperCollins. Publishing is a highly collaborative business: everyone in the company contributes in some way to maximising our author’s work.

Reading Opens Doors – that is, doors to future opportunities and choices. Our purpose is to invest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote communities to provide the tools and resources they request to shape the direction of their children’s literacy future.

ILF supports remote Communities across Australia. 

The world is reading, and Ingram Content Group connects people with content in all forms. Providing comprehensive services for retailers, publishers, libraries and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation, and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print-on-demand, and digital learning.

Larrikin House, where kids find themselves in books! As a publisher, we have an unwavering commitment to creating quirky, original, fun kid-focused books to engage young readers. We push back against tired stereotypes and are focused on publishing joyful books that kids love.

CEO, James Layton has been buying and selling books for over 30 years and is one of the largest children’s booksellers to the educational market.
Publisher, Dani Vee is a children’s author, host of the Words and Nerds podcast and focuses on publishing books that make kids feel more confident in who they are.

Magabala Books is Australia’s leading Indigenous publishing house. Aboriginal owned and led, we celebrate and nurture the talent and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.

Magnum has over forty years accumulated experience in handling your books. Our lengthy experience gives us an unparalleled understanding of the book business. The innovative enhanced consolidation service we provide ensures our customers’ books reach their destination securely, and at a price with which other agents just can’t compete.

Magnum’s unique personal service means we go that extra mile for you.

Global reach across all continents

Millions of books shipped

A wealth of experience

Melbourne University Press (MUP), established in 1922, is Australia’s oldest university press and one of the oldest and most respected Australian publishing companies. MUP publishes popular scholarship with particular strengths in Australian Studies and History, Southeast Asian and South Asian Studies, and Health and Medicine. Under its prestigious Miegunyah Press imprint the press also produces major biographies and high-quality works on Art, Art History and Architecture. MUP is dedicated to sharing top Australian non-fiction writing with a worldwide audience publishing books, ebooks and audiobooks.

myPAPERCLIP was started in 2013 with a desire to create high quality, minimal, sustainable and durable notebooks along with desk essentials. Today, we make multiple kinds of products catering to a wide demographic and type of use. With minimalism and great design aesthetic at our core, our products are appreciated by corporate professionals, students, designers and notebook enthusiasts.

NewSouth Books is an Australian general and specialist sales, marketing and distribution force. NewSouth Books is wholly owned by UNSW Press Ltd. NewSouth Books represents agencies from Australasia, the USA, Canada, and the UK.

NielsenIQ BookData provides a range of services to the book industry internationally, aiding the discovery, purchase and sales measurement of books. We offer the largest and most comprehensive bibliographic database, BookData Online, with over 43 million title records to discover, as well as a record supply service to populate bookseller, library and publisher websites.

Our Research services provide retail sales analysis for print books alongside research from our UK Books and Consumer Survey. For publishers, we offer a range of services including adding your metadata to our database and promotional tools to help market your book.

NLA Publishing creates books that tell stories by and about Australians. We explore the Library’s extensive collections to share Australia’s culture and history.

Working with leading writers, illustrators and designers, we produce award-winning non-fiction and children’s titles in the fields of history, art, photography, the environment and literature. We shine a light on the Library’s treasures, interpreting them to offer a greater understanding of our country and its many peoples.

Macmillan is one of the biggest and best-known international publishing houses in the world. It is characterised by fiction and non-fiction, science, academic, professional and educational publishing of the very highest quality. Here at Pan Macmillan Australia, we publish a wide range of bestselling, award-winning and high-quality titles. We publish under the imprints Macmillan, Pan, Picador, Plum and Macquarie Dictionary Publishers. We are committed to investing in Australian authors and stories, and our local publishing program covers a broad range of genres.

Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. We believe that books, and the stories and ideas they hold, have the unique capacity to connect us, change us, and carry us toward a better future for generations to come.

Renniks Group are importers and distributors of: 

• Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks, journals, diaries and planners.
• Award winning Drehgriffel pens and Otto Hutt writing instruments.
• Herma labels for office & industrial purposes.
• Large variety of publications for motoring and military enthusiasts.
• Coin & stamp collector publications by Renniks and storage systems by Lighthouse.

Trading since 1947.

Wombat Books has been sharing stories and creating memories with families for over ten years. As an independent boutique publisher, we love to find those unique stories that connect us all. We publish children’s fiction with pages filled with readable and loveable characters.We have been publishing for over 15 years and over 6 years with Rhiza Edge our imprint for teenagers. 

We publish children’s picture books up to teen books with the occasional adult or new adult book. Some of our titles include collections of short stories and opportunity for new and aspiring authors to have their voices heard. Based in Country Queensland with a growing list of titles we plan to expand increasing our publishing schedule with distribution both locally and internationally. We offer engaging stories that relate to everyday readers.

Scribe has been operating as a wholly independent trade-publishing house for more than 40 years. What started off in 1976 as a desire on publisher Henry Rosenbloom’s part to publish ‘serious nonfiction’ as a one-man band has turned into a multi-award-winning company with more than 25 staff members in two locations — Melbourne, Australia and London, England — as well as a scout in New York, and a dedicated publicity and marketing team on the ground in the US.

Scribe publishes over 65 nonfiction and fiction titles annually in Australia, about 60 in the United Kingdom, and as of 2017, about 30 titles in the US.

We spend each day sifting through submissions and manuscripts from around the world, and commissioning and editing local titles, in an uncompromising pursuit of the best books we can find, help create, and deliver to readers. We love what we do, and we hope you will, too.

Simon & Schuster Australia publishes and distributes a variety of books in Australia and New Zealand across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books under our local and international imprints. These include Affirm Press, Atria, Free Press, Gallery, Howard, Pocket, Scribner, Simon & Schuster and Touchstone.

Simon & Schuster Australia also acts as the local sales and distribution partner for: 4 Ingredients, Berbay Publishing, Big Sky Publishing, Black Library, Brolga Publishing, Cider Mill Press, Elliott & Thompson, Fox Chapel Publishing International, Hazelden, Hunter Publishers, Inner Traditions, Insight Editions, Noel Whittaker, Pegasus Books, Post Hill Press, powerHouse Books, Printers Row, Regan Arts, Rockpool Publishing, Smith Street Books, Two Good Co, Ventura Press, Viz Media, Waterhouse Press, Weldon Owen, Wild Dog Books and Z2 Comics.

Text Publishing is a Melbourne-based publisher of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Text has been awarded the ABIA Small Publisher of the Year three times and won the Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year in 2018 and 2019.

At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction. We love the phrase ‘lost in a book’—that’s where we want our readers to be. You can’t get lost in a newspaper or a magazine or even a movie. But people get lost in books every day—on the tram, on the beach, in bed. Reading is what keeps the imagination supple and challenges preconceptions and prejudices. You read at your own speed, and the world you enter courtesy of the writer is yours and yours only, even if the person next to you on the bus is reading exactly the same book.

Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their passion and mission was to create a ‘museum without walls’ and to make the world of art and the research of top scholars accessible to a large reading public. To reflect its international outlook, the name for the company linked the rivers flowing through London and New York. The two dolphins in the company’s logo symbolise friendship and intelligence, one facing east, one west, suggesting a connection between the old world and the new.

Thames & Hudson Australia was established in Melbourne in 1970, to represent the Thames & Hudson list in Australia & New Zealand and to make the books produced in London more accessible to a local readership. Quickly establishing itself as one of the region’s leading publishers of illustrated visual arts books, the Australian company has grown to expand its local publishing program of books by Australian and New Zealand authors for a domestic and international market.

TitlePage streamlines the Australian book industry’s availability and pricing information.

With 1.7 million titles listed, TitlePage provides real-time access to comprehensive bibliographic metadata, helping booksellers to sell more books.

The Australian Publishers Association is investing in the TitlePage user experience to provide booksellers with faster access to book data and more accurate supply information – on TitlePage, through TitlePage Express, and in their own systems.

As the industry’s central hub for reliable book information, this continued development makes it easier than ever for booksellers, as well as their websites, platforms, and e-commerce solutions, to access TitlePage data.

UQP is one of Australia’s leading publishing houses, having won Australian Small Publisher of the Year in 2021, 2022 and 2023. UQP consistently produces culturally significant works across genres such as fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as children’s and young adult books. 

UQP is known for publishing literary works, poetry and First Nations stories from some of Australia’s most esteemed writers as well as launching the careers of exciting new entrants into the literary scene. We create books that enrich and inspire readers and make a major contribution to the fabric of arts and literature in Australia and the world.

UWA Publishing (UWAP) is Australia’s second-oldest University publishing house and is based in Perth, Western Australia and has been in operation since 1935. UWAP is dedicated to sharing stories, research and education with the world to encourage thought, inspire action and create and connect with engaged communities.

We publish a broad range of works from literary fiction, poetry, young adult and middle-grade novels, non-fiction, and scholarly works.

Walker Books Australia has been bringing the best of children’s publishing to Australian children for 30 years and is recognised as a market leader in quality children’s books, publishing award-winning authors and illustrators. The company is dedicated to publishing books of unwavering quality for children and young adults to read and treasure. Equally, Walker Books Australia is passionate about the Australian Children’s book industry and renowned as a haven for the most highly talented authors and illustrators, both emerging and award-winning.

Wiley is dedicated to helping people develop, learn and advance their knowledge. We’re unlocking human potential. One idea, one job, one institution, at a time.

We’re a global leader in research and education. From a print shop in New York City to a global and digital presence, we’ve spent more than 200 years developing and fuelling the world’s knowledge ecosystem. Today, our high-impact content, platforms, and services help researchers, learners, institutions, and corporations achieve their goals in an ever-changing world.

Zeller is Australia’s leading all-in-one payments and POS solution. With Zeller Terminal, your bookstore can accept payments faster, track sales, and streamline checkout — all with low transaction fees, no monthly rental fees, and no lock-in contracts.

Zero Payments provides secure, flexible and reliable payment solutions that help streamline business processes to provide a faster, simpler, more convenient experience for their customers. Offering customised end-to-end solutions that deliver, more than 6,000 Australian businesses have chosen to partner with Zero since 2007. We’re a passionate team of industry experts who will take the time to understand your business and your goals, and work with you to deliver the right payment solution for your needs. Relationships are important to us, and we love partnering with businesses, to set them up for success.