Publishers work behind the scenes, monitoring the European and North American bestseller charts the way a stockbroker watches rising and falling stock prices. These numbers not only indirectly determine the shape of Taiwan's translated book market; to a certain extent, they govern which foreign perspectives are presented to the Taiwanese readership, thereby influencing their worldview.
在眾多新書背後，有這麼一群「版權人」時時緊盯歐美暢銷書的即時排行榜，這些宛如股票漲跌般上下曲折的數字，不僅玄機暗藏，更間接主宰了台灣的翻譯書市，某種程度上，也決定了讀者們將看見的世界。