At first, Big Apple and Bardon enjoyed an unchallenged hegemony in Taiwan until the arrivals of English firm ANA, European-language specialists Jia-Xi Books, and literature maven Grayhawk.
初期以大蘋果、博達兩家公司獨霸，而後有來自英國的 ANA、以歐語系為強項的家西書社，以及以文學小說打響名號的光磊等加入戰局。