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Poland Book Publishing
After the Round Table Agreement, book publishing,
distribution, and marketing entered a period of
unprecedented
upheaval. Together with the welcome lifting of censorship
came
the end of generous state subsidies for publishers. Thus,
publishers of esoteric scholarly and literary works with
limited
market appeal suffered severe losses. At the same time,
however,
the newfound opportunity to gain profits by satisfying the
reading tastes of the Polish public caused a dramatic
proliferation of publishing houses. In mid-1992, between
1,200
and 2,000 publishing houses, most of them small
enterprises, were
in operation. Only about 100 of that number had all the
trappings
of full-scale publishing firms: catalogs, international
standard
book numbers, and observance of the copyright deposit law.
Data as of October 1992
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