If you look at the bestsellers 'list at the Kingstone Bookstore chain for the first half of 1999, magazines teaching foreign languages were one of the five most popular categories of magazines. (The others were women's, technology, leisure, and finance magazines.) Sixteen percent of all magazines sold were language magazines, of which English magazines, numbering more than 20 all told, hold the lion's share.
以金石堂連鎖書店上半年雜誌銷售的排行榜來看，今年一到七月，熱賣雜誌的前五類分別是語言、婦女、科技、休閒及財經類，其中語言類銷售量佔所有雜誌的百分之十六，而英語類更獨佔市場鰲頭，品牌超過二十種。