Let's take a look at a comparison of book sale revenues up-, mid-, and downstream. In Japan, the bookstore gets 23 % and the wholesaler 10 %. The remaining 67 % goes to the publisher. In Taiwan, the bookstore gets 30 %, the wholesaler 14 % and the publisher 56 %.
以一本書的利潤在上中下游的分配比例來看，日本的書店得 23％，中盤得 10％，其餘 67％皆回歸到上游的出版社；而台灣的書店約佔 30％，中盤得 14％，出版社只得 56％。