Wang notes that thousands of new books are published in the US each week, and competition is intense. Under these circumstances, a book review in a respected periodical is considered a key indicator of a book's importance, and any book that gets reviewed immediately gets widespread attention.
他指出，美國每星期有幾千本書上市，競爭非常激烈，在這種情況下，書評被視為一個很重要的指標，只要是被評論的書，立刻引起很大的注意。