In addition to the usual names from Europe and the US, this year saw Japanese and Korean publishing houses which have attended the exhibition in the past, as well as their less familiar counterparts from Iran and African nations. One can say that the Taipei International Book Exhibition 2008 was more of a platform for cultural exchange than its 15 predecessors.
今年參展的國外出版社除了常見的歐、美等國外，從過去接觸較多的日、韓，到較少接觸的伊朗、非洲，展現台北國際書展作為多元文化交流平台的企圖與功能。