Big Goose was fastidious about paper quality, binding and layout, but author Fu Yueh-an says that in the period before Eslite Bookstore and the Internet, Chien Chen was swimming against the tide. Eventually, she resigned herself to closing the business.
作家傅月庵曾形容，在那「前不見誠品，後不見網路」的年代裡，簡直就是「秀才造反」，注定最後必須收攤。