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ABR Black Friday subscription offer

22 November 2022 Written by Australian Book review
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Subscribe to the digital edition of Australian Book Review between 24 and 27 November 2022 (inclusive) using the discount code BlackFriday22 to save $20 on an annual digital subscription (RRP $80). 

Purchase your $60 digital subscription here

Terms and conditions apply. Offer valid from the 12.01 am 24 November to 11.59 pm 27 November 2022. Offer valid only for one-year individual digital subscriptions (RRP$80). The coupon code above must be entered at checkout to redeem the special subscription price of $60 p.a.  Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any difficulties redeeming the discounted subscription. 

Gift Subscriptions

18 July 2022 Written by ABR Admin
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Our online gift subscription system is currently offline.

To purchase a gift subscription to Australian Book Review in either digital or print format, please call the ABR office on 03 9699 8822 to arrange payment over the phone.

 

Apologies for the inconvenience, we plan to have this service back online soon!

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19 April 2018 Written by Hidden Author
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Institutional Subscriptions

06 September 2017 Written by Australian Book Review
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ABR would be a great addition to your library’s digital resources collection. Now that ABR is no longer available via Informit, ABR is an even more important digital resource for academics and students. Why not trial the magazine now for your institution?


Request a free one-month trial to ABR Online

A digital ABR subscription offers:

  • Eleven digital issues of ABR per year
  • Instant access to new editions on the day of publication
  • Access to our rapidly growing digital archive and extra features
  • Fully searchable extended articles with added references, links, tags, and images
  • Expanded biographical notes on all our contributors with links to their past work
  • Access via IP address authentication for institutions
  • Usage statistics on request

Our content is encyclopedic and sophisticated. We publish some of Australia’s most distinguished academics, and we review scholarly publications from around the world. Through the Calibre Essay Prize, commentary material, and the ABR Fellowship program, we publish some of the finest long-form journalism in the country.


Subscription Rates and Bundles*

 

Australia
Digital only: Smaller institutions* $150 / Larger institutions* $500
Print only (single copy): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Institutions $120
Print and digital bundle: Smaller institutions* $200 / Larger institutions* $550


Asia / New Zealand
Digital only: Smaller institutions* $150 / Larger institutions* $500
Print only (single copy): Institutions $220
Print and digital bundle: Smaller institutions* $280 / Larger institutions* $620


Rest of the World
Digital only: Smaller institutions* $150 / Larger institutions* $500
Print only (single copy): Institutions $250
Print and digital bundle: Smaller institutions* $310 / Larger institutions* $650


*Unless otherwise indicated, ‘Smaller Institutions’ refers to schools, public libraries, publishers, and galleries and similarly sized organisations. ‘Larger Institutions’ refers to government auspices and departments, university libraries, national and state libraries and their international counterparts (in terms of status and reach). All rates quoted above are listed in Australian dollars and include GST where applicable. They do not include agency fees. All rates above are for a one year subscription period. Longer subscriptions are available. These rates are correct at March 2021 but are subject to change without notice. Institutional access to the digital edition of ABR is available to unlimited onsite users via IP-address authentication. Please contact us to discuss remote access.

Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to set up a free one-month trial for your institution and find out why so many of the world's major universities and libraries already subscribe.

Subscribe to ABR

21 January 2013 Written by Nathan Morrow
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Join the ABR community. We offer a range of subscriptions tailored for individuals and institutions, print readers and online users. 
If you are having trouble subscribing, contact us on (03) 9699 8822 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 


Digital

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Subscribe and receive 11 print issues per year as well as complete digital access to ABR.

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Take Two

Purchase a combined print + digital subscription to ABR and one other Australian literary magazine, including: Meanjin, Overland, Island Magazine, Limelight, Griffith Review, and Westerly Magazine.

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Gift subscriptions to ABR

Purchase a full print and/or digital subscription to ABR as a gift for someone.

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Institutions

Purchase an institutional subscription for your university and/or library.

Universities, government auspices and institutions must contact ABR to set up online access: 
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +61 3 9699 8822.

Only individual subscribers are eligible to add a digital subscription to their print subscription free of charge. ABR digital subscribers are subject to our Terms and Conditions of Use.

All small institutions, including schools and municipal libraries, can purchase a one-year digital subscription for $150. However, for university libraries, government auspices and departments, national and state libraries and their international counterparts (in terms of status and reach) a one-year digital subscription to ABR costs $500.

To organise an institutional digital subscription please contact ABR by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by phone: +61 3 9699 8822. One-month trials can be arranged on request.

Please click here for more information about institutional subscriptions to Australian Book Review.

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Subscribe Online Help

02 August 2009 Written by Amy Baillieu
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We understand that shopping online can be confusing so we have prepared the following step by step guide to subscribing to ABR.

Step 1 - From the Subscribe menu item above, select Subscribe Online to go to the subscriptions page. Open a new browser window to do this so that you can continue to follow these instructions.

Step 2 - Complete the Personal Details section of the subscription form. In this section we ask you to specify a Username and Password. This is so that you can log in to the site in the future to pay or cancel your subscription renewal. You will also be able to view a history of your subscriptions.

Step 3 - Complete the Subscription Details section of the subscription form. Select the appropriate one or two year subscription from the available opitons. For Australian customers, you also have the option of having a second copy of ABR delivered.

Step 4 - Enter the letters you see displayed in the box under the Image Verification heading. This is an anti-spam measure designed to ensure only real people are filling the form. Once you have entered these letters, click on the Submit button to continue with your order.

Step 5 - You will then be taken to a page displaying your order details and totals. After you have reviewed this information and confirmed that it is correct, click on the Submit button to proceed to the PayPal payment gateway where you can pay by credit card or using your PayPal account. PayPal like to encourage you to sign up for an account and they don't make it obvious you can pay by credit card but as you will see in the next step, it's very easy.

Step 6 - If you have a PayPal account then you probably don't need too much more help from here. Simply log in with your PayPal account details and proceed to payment. The rest of these steps are for those want to pay directly by credit card. When you first arrive at the PayPal gateway, underneath your order details, you should see the following login box for those with a PayPal account. In small print below the login fields is a link to Pay by Credit Card, which we have circled red in the following image:

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Step 7 - The Final Step. Once you have clicked on this link you will be taken to the following page where you can enter you credit card details and complete your order:

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