The problems touched upon by the issue of textbook prices are quite broad. In Japan, the US and many European countries, textbooks for mandatory schooling are free. These countries see free texts as an unshirkable responsibility of mandatory education. It indicates a certain attitude toward the importance of education to a nation.
教科書的價格問題，確實牽涉很廣，在日本、美國、歐洲等許多國家，國民義務教育的教科書都是免費的，各國將此當作「承擔國民教育，政府責無旁貸」的教育政策，具指標意義。