Based on what happened this Saturday, press conferences Planet Awards, They have already been stripped of their political context in the processivist tidal wave and are once again of a purely editorial character, although the Group is still headquartered in Madrid and a return is not foreseen in the near future. First of all, we are talking about numbers: 71 million The number of people who have at some point caught their eye on a Planeta-winning novel has reached a record number this year. 1,129 originals, 461 More than 2022, perhaps because this is the first year – it seems incredible – that the mechanism has been digitized to allow the use of email.
It was discussed whether Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is a topic that worries everyone, can produce novels that can be successful in the world. arrangement bestseller. Some have suspected that this increase in originals may be related to artificial intelligence, since there is currently no reliable method to detect this in the group, as the book domain manager explained. Jesus Badenes , although it is plagiarized. “The ethical perspective corresponds to editors, but can assist authors with documentation tasks and editors with distribution tasks,” he said.
Jury with tradition
Juan Eslava Galán, spokesman for a jury of extreme traditions (Rosa Regàs, the eldest, will blow 90 candles next month, Carmen Posadas, the youngest, will do so next summer, compared to 71), is of the opinion: ” ” A machine has the innovation and talent of a writer does not have the capacity.” The chairman of the group said, José Crehueras, He joked with the idea that they don’t need any digital system to detect fraud because they already have Pere Gimferrer, a very wise ‘avant la lettre’ AI. In the usual chest-pumping exercise on the eve of the awarding of the world’s best-equipped award, the recent acquisition of the Valencian publishing house was discussed. Joke60%, with absolute respect for both its headquarters and original philosophies, as well as the chain’s three new booklets house of the book, group, which has resulted in “one in five books sold in Spain being billed here”. That’s why they are congratulated bookstores We have shown particularly good resilience to electronic trading, which rose to 33% in pandemic times and today represents only 27%.
Regarding the winner, the groups accompanying the presentation constantly emphasized that there was a bestselling book like this: Maria Duenas That he didn’t have the Planet yet, or that it had been many years since a Latin American had achieved it. Among the most appealing topics presented by the authors, which follow prevailing business trends, are: black novelsthose of the type reference also starring female characters We are looking for the well known strengthening.