The TIBE was a success. As Premier Vincent Siew said in his opening remarks, the TIBE was a New Year's shot in the arm for people reeling from the financial crisis, and marks progress toward Taiwan's goals of becoming an Asian copyrights trading center and an axis for the Chinese language book market. (Marlene Chen / tr.
書展在熱鬧中落幕，如同行政院長蕭萬長在開幕致詞中說，台北國際書展為飽受金融風暴的人民迎來春天的氣息，而台灣也將繼續朝向亞洲版權交易中心和華文圖書市場樞紐的目標邁進。