"The demand hasn't gone anywhere, it's just that readers are obtaining the service in a more efficient manner," says Chen Ying-ching, publisher of Owl Publishing House. Owl specializes in illustrated guides and pictorials, and has watched with great consternation as print encyclopedias, English-Chinese dictionaries, and maps increasingly resemble artifacts of a past age.
「讀者的需求沒有消失，只是用另一種更有效的方式滿足，」貓頭鷹出版社社長陳穎青說，看到百科全書、英漢辭典、紙本地圖逐一被網路取代，讓出版圖鑑工具書的貓頭鷹憂心不已。