SMC Publishing general manager Wei Te-wen also laments, "Before when we published an academic book we'd take order slips next door to NTU's history department and sell hundreds of copies.
南天書店總經理魏德文的感慨也很深：「以前出一本學術研究書，拿單子到隔壁的台大歷史系登記，傳一輪就賣出幾百本。