Though there is only a small market for books in simplified characters and it is unlikely that they could become the mainstream, writers and translators from China have been steadily gaining ground in Taiwan. If the Taiwanese publishing industry remains in a state of inertia, neither developing local literary historians and writers nor focusing on translating academic works, there might be trouble ahead!
簡體書雖然終究只是小眾市場，仍難取代主流偏好的繁體字和繁體書，不過近年來中國作家及譯者在台灣書市的份量日益增加，若是台灣出版界仍因循惰性，不培養本土文史作家，也不投注心力翻譯學術論著，對整體出版市場來說，或許才是最令人憂心的事吧！