diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index 4eab9108cf..61f3031b8e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -1565,6 +1565,7 @@ class StorePublioStore(StoreBase):
 
     headquarters = 'PL'
     formats = ['EPUB', 'MOBI', 'PDF']
+    affiliate = True
 
 class StoreRW2010Store(StoreBase):
     name = 'RW2010'
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
index 3ecabdbc3e..c93410abcc 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class PublioStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
                     title2 = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="desc"]/h5/a/text()'))
                     if title2:
                         title = title + '. ' + title2
-                    author = ', '.join(data.xpath('./div[@class="desc"]/div[@class="detailShortList"]/div[@class="row"]/a/text()'))
+                    author = ', '.join(data.xpath('./div[@class="desc"]/div[@class="detailShortList"]/div[@class="row"][1]/a/@title'))
                     price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="priceBoxContener "]/div/ins/text()'))
                     if not price:
                         price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="priceBoxContener "]/div/text()'))