According to the International Standard Book Number Center of the National Library, in 1996, Taiwan published 38,000 new books, in 2001 the figure surpassed 40,000, and last year it reached 43,000.
根據國家圖書館國際標準書號中心統計，民國八十九年，台灣出版的新書有三萬八千多本；九十年突破四萬本，去年增加到四萬三千多本。