The talk on the street among booksellers pointed to the huge attraction of the mainland Chinese market. The annual May Beijing Book Fair and the actively developing Shanghai Book Fair will be tough competitors for TIBE. The pressing question is how to create a special niche for TIBE so it can hold its own against the competition.
坊間輿論也指出，針對中國大陸的龐大市場吸引力，每年五月的北京書展和積極佈局的上海書展將是台北書展的勁敵，如何營造台北書展的特色，讓國際出版界不致產生排擠效應實為當務之急。