The blossoming book market attracts foreign investors

"Our first print run of the famous Polish science fiction writer Sapkowski's latest book will be 100,000 copies, and we expect to sell every copy. The Polish reader is becoming more predictive," said Wojciech Płotek from Nowa publishing house. The national book market has also attracted the largest number of foreign investors among Central European countries. "We are still waiting for foreign investors, our highest circulation books amount to about 30,000 copies," said Damian Yakov, a Bulgarian publisher. The value of the book market in Poland will reach zł.2.19 billion in 2004, which is still substantially less than in Western Europe. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A11) M.M.