The director of the Elite Books Publishing Company, Yin Ti, once told Ke Ching-ming that it seems like the publishing industry is under the control of Hollywood's Big Eight film studios. The release of a book is like the release of a movie. If a book does not sell well for the first or second week, then it is taken off the shelf and returned.
爾雅出版社負責人隱地曾對柯慶明說，出版業好像也被「八大電影公司」控制，賣書就像電影上片一樣，一、兩個禮拜沒賣出多少本，就下架、退貨。