There are many again on this cloudy Wednesday morning in Leipzig, the importance of books and of course the sentences emphasized by the Leipzig Book Fair. Astrid Böhmisch, the director of the trade fair, said at the press conference in Hall 2 of the Congress Center on the exhibition center that this annual book market event was a place “which connects and brings different backgrounds about the power of words and literature.
Your managing director Martin Buhl-Wagner, in turn, seconded that the great encouragement showed, namely more than 2000 exhibitors from 45 countries, which for a “high priority” has the fair for the publishers “to strengthen your own market presence.”
And Peter Kraus from the Cleff, the general manager of the Börsenverein of the German Book Trade, leaned far out of the window. “In a disruptive time in which a right -wing extremist party is the second strongest force in the Bundestag, the book is one of the most important elements to secure democracy and diversity in the morning and the day after,” said Kraus from the Cleff.
Books take fake news with secure information from the sail and promote reading ability among the youngest.
Peter Kraus vom Cleff, The general manager of the Börsenverein of the German Book Trade.
And: “Books widen the horizon for the perspectives of others and promote empathy, they take fake news with secure information with secure information from the sailing and promote reading ability among the youngest so that they can form their own opinion far in the future.”
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The car ratio of the autocrats
Unfortunately, developments in the world have also proven the opposite: So far, books have had little to do against the global triumphal march of autocrats, for example not Anne Applebaum’s study on the networks of these autocrats and their axes. Shortly after the Apple Baum in Frankfurt, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade had been awarded, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States for the second time.
If we fail to create statutory reins to artificial intelligence before distorting the political debate, this could have catastrophic consequences in the future. “
Anne ApplebaumJournalist, columnist, author
Kraus vom Cleff immediately addressed some appeals to politics, for example that “legal guardrails” had to be available for dealing with artificial intelligence, because “Big Tech unexpectedly produced the elaborately produced content of our books” and thus feed their KIS. By the way, in the sense of Applebaum, which warns in her book: “If we fail to create statutory reins to artificial intelligence before distorting the political debate, this could have catastrophic consequences in the future.”
The effects of AI
The book fair has already reacted and set up a forum in Hall 5, “man and AI: beautiful new world”, in which there are supposed to provide lectures and panel discussions on the effects of AI on culture and society, on journalism, education and publishing.
The disruptive time mentioned by Kraus vom Cleff, in which we live, with their pace and its turbulence, does not seem to be able to get the Leipzig Book Fair quite depicted with its very general, vague motto “Words move worlds”. What should you imagine?
With regard to political debates, there seems to be a certain exhaustion, also in Frankfurt, and so in Leipzig you focus on the host country of Norway, on “exciting prices” (from the European communication award this evening at the start of Alhierd Bacharevič on the price of the Leipzig Book Fair on Thursday afternoon to the newly created Franz-Hessian Prize and the “Seraph”, the price for the price best fantastic novel on Friday) and the many readings in the city at the “Leipzig reads” festival.
The power of literature and books, it is inexhaustible, especially with regard to her summoning. But there are also limits.