Even so, more than 35 % of Taiwan's schools are continuing to use NICT textbooks this year. During the first year, textbooks published by the more than ten competing private firms were used by less than 40 % of students. The second year has seen a change for the better, but even with ten private publishers up against the NICT, the national publisher still comes out as the big winner.
十餘家出版商奮力編出來的版本，第一年僅有不到四成的使用率，第二年雖然情勢逆轉，但以十幾家出版商對一家「國編本」的情勢，「國編本」仍是大贏家。