Over the last 20 years, as the economy has grown, the publishing industry has also experienced rapid expansion, with the number of publishers increasing from the hundreds to the thousands. Taiwan, with a population of only 23 million, comes out with more than 40,000 new titles a year, which puts the island second in the world in new titles per capita.
近二十年，隨著台灣經濟起飛，出版業也快速成長，出版社由幾百家躍增到數千家；二千三百萬人口的台灣，每年出版四萬多種新書，以人口比例看來，是全世界排名第二的出版大國。