Despite such competition, many foreign ob servers think that the future looks good for the TIBE. To take one example, Chris Ramage, who came to Taiwan to seek the rights to act as agent for Chinese language books, says that the demand is high in Australia for books printed with the complex Chinese characters used in Taiwan (as opposed to the simplified forms used in the PRC).
但是不少國外廠商仍對台北國際書展十分看好，如來台尋求代理華文書籍的藍墨奇便說，澳洲華人市場越來越大，正體字的書籍供不應求，他覺得收穫很大。