According to Liu Weilin's analysis, Taiwan's multitudinous convenience stores originally proved an obstacle for aspiring online shopping services, but the success of books.com.tw in using them has created a uniquely Taiwanese shipping model and turned these former competitors into massively beneficial intermediaries in the shopping process.
網路趨勢專家劉威麟則分析，台灣 3 步一家的便利商店，本不利於網購發展，但業者卻能參考「博客來」的成功經驗，不但發展出一套「台灣獨有」的物流方式，也讓原本是潛在競爭對手的超商，轉而成為保障網購買賣雙方權益的中間者。