Bookkeeping market

PAP: What does your presidency mean for the Polish book market?

G.P.: In Poland, the marketplace is pathological. The study of the Book Institute shows that authors gain an average of 2.5 1000 gross per month, or 5-7 percent of the price seen on the cover. another money goes to another players in the market, but above all to distributors.

A fixed book price was introduced in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. This solution is not ideal, but at least the author knows how much more or little he can earn. In Poland, however, the book is already on the day of its premiere, and the next day it is available on pirate pages for free. There are no safety features for authors.

The next thing I want to focus on is the fight for transparency and transparency. No data on book sales is common in Poland. We erstwhile held a conference for the European Commission in Brussels with the EWC to tell how authors and the book marketplace function. I was ashamed erstwhile sales data were coming from all countries, but not from Poland.

PAP: How will the book marketplace change if no appropriate steps are taken?

G.P.: At the minute any are already replacing literary translators and utilizing programs. The same can happen to authors. shortly artificial intelligence, collecting information about a peculiar user, will be able to produce specified literature as we would like to read. It'll be a profiled product - we'll like it, but it won't make us think. It'll most likely be crime and romance first. There will be no area for ambitious literature, poetry, reporting - they will become besides hard for people.


This will be the beginning of the regression of independent, critical thinking. It's dangerous. It will be possible to flood society with disinformation and manipulate propaganda, which is already happening. Now we inactive have the intellectual resources of writers or creators who effort to defend people from this, but this fuse may not be available.

Another problem is the regression of Polish language. It is not 1 of the giants of the English, Spanish, French, German type. The AI models best practice large languages, which will make these tiny ones disappear. All the more so, if there are no writers or another people active in this language. Then we are completely easy to control, due to the fact that we have limited vocabulary, we have no independent reasoning skills, and we are fed products supplied by the machine. It's a threat if we let artificial intelligence to flood us with products without any restrictions.