Locus Publishing chairman Rex How wrote an analysis saying, "The pressures created by the inability of many small publishing houses to deal directly with the bookstore chains has led to the need for joining together under a distributor that acts as a buffer."
如大塊出版社董事長郝明義曾撰文分析，「由於許多小出版社承擔不起與連鎖書店直接往來的種種壓力，反而產生以經銷商為緩衝，並結合在經銷商之下、相互取暖的需要。」