With some 40,000 titles published annually, Taiwan has one of the highest book-to-person publishing rates in the world, second only to the United Kingdom. But this impressive statistic belies the fact that most of the over 1000 publishing houses that cater to Taiwan's 23 million residents are small in scope and manpower, with 60 % of them operating annually on less than NT $ 5 million.
台灣每年出書量在 4 萬種上下，以人均出版量來說，是僅次於英國、全球排名第二的出版大國，但 2,300 萬人口的市場卻擠了上千家出版社，其中規模小、人力少，資本額在新台幣 500 萬元以下者占 60 %。