According to Ting Chih-jen, director of the Educational Reform Group Institute, the long-term concern for children's publications expressed by private publishers allowed them to successfully put out a variety of textbooks despite the suddenness of privatization and their lack of experience publishing textbooks.
振鐸學會理事丁志仁表示，教科書驟然開放，如果不是長期關心兒童讀物的出版商，以其原有的基礎參與編印，不可能有如此繁盛場面。