France and Italy each come out with about 50,000 titles a year, Japan 60,000, and the US, with a population over 250 million, 80,000. In the UK, with a population two-plus times that of Taiwan, the number of new books published in a year is an amazing 120,000, putting that country at the top of the global list for publishing volume.
每年，法國與義大利有五萬種、日本有六萬種新書上架，人口二億多的美國一年出版八萬種新書；人口比台灣多兩倍的英國，一年出版的新書更高達十二萬種，出書量穩居世界第一。