2024 entry categories
The entry categories for the Australian Business Book Awards have been determined by the most common themes in business and business-related books. If you are considering entering the awards and you are not sure which category or which categories best suit your book, please contact the award organisers for advice.
Each book can be entered in one or two categories. The categories are selected in the entry form during the entry process.
You do not have to enter your book in the Book of the Year or Best Cover category – all books are automatically entered into these two. The Book of the Year will be awarded from the subject category winners. There is no entry fee for these two categories.
Choose one or two of these categories to enter your book into:
Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Starting a business, selling a business, business innovation, bookkeeping, business development, start-up funding, crowdfunding, home-based businesses, and similar topics
Social
Responsibility
Ethics, socially responsible supply chains, socially responsible business management, socially responsible lifestyles, environmental issues, social issues, responsible investing, and similar topics
Personal Development
General self-help, time management, career development, business skills, self-esteem, social skills, personal communication, grief and bereavement, spirituality, networking, public speaking, and similar topics
Communications and Sales
Marketing theory and methods, sales theory and methods, social media theory and methods, PR theory and methods, advertising, branding, and similar topics
Personal Finance and Investment
Financial planning, investment, retirement, shares, property, personal taxation, portfolio management, superannuation, trusts, personal insurance, budgeting, personal accounting, personal bankruptcy, and similar topics
Management and HR
Business management theory and methods, HR theory and methods, recruitment, business accounting, risk management, outsourcing, workplace health and safety, business ethics, diversity in business, business administration, business insurance, business bankruptcy, change management, negotiating, and similar topics
Leadership
Leadership theory and methods, empowering others, team building, and similar topics
Technology
Using technology in business, technology trends, software, e-commerce, automation, digital workplaces, IT development, cloud services, internet, multimedia, computer networks, content management, artificial intelligence, and similar topics
Health and Wellbeing
Fitness, yoga, meditation, Pilates, dental, physio, mental health, parenting, allergies, beauty, childbirth, diet and nutrition, weight loss, diseases, exercise, first aid, healthy living, happiness, naturopathy, disability, gender and sexuality, ageing, pain management, psychology, sleep, healing, intuition, and similar topics
General Business
Business biographies and autobiographies, economics, reference books, legal issues, education, importing and exporting, globalisation, media, communications, environmental issues, taxation, religion, non-profits, training, family issues, agriculture, engineering, science, cooking, trade, creativity, manufacturing, and topics not covered in other categories.
All books are automatically entered into these two categories:
Best Cover Design
Best cover based on sophistication and quality of design, the suitability of the design for the genre and target audience, how well the design would encourage readers to pick up the book, how well the design reflects the content of the book, and other criteria. All books are automatically entered into the best cover category unless the author opts out during the entry process.
Book of the Year
The Book of the Year is awarded to the book with the best overall score as determined by the judges. Entrants can’t enter this as a category – it is an award that will be announced on the Awards night.
The Australian Business Book Awards are run as not for profit, and any profits will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation – a fantastic organisation doing extraordinary things to raise the level of literacy throughout Indigenous communities in Australia.
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