Linden Lin, the editor-in-chief of Linking Publishing, provides some basic figures for comparison. Every year 80,000 titles are produced every year for the 1.3 billion people of mainland China. The 200-plus million people of the United States produce 70,000 titles. Japan's 130 million people produce 65,000 titles.
聯經出版公司總編輯林載爵指出，中國大陸十三億人口，每年出版八萬種書；美國兩億多人口，每年出版七萬種書；日本一億三百萬人口，每年出版六萬五千種書；台灣兩千三百萬人口，每年出版卻高達三萬八千種書，出書量實在過多。