Culture and commodity Looking at operating revenues in the publishing industry, "the larger the contribution old books make to annual revenues, the more stable a publishing company is," explains Whale Lin. Considered as commodities, books also face the problem of depreciation.
是文化、也是商品事實上，以出版業營運績效來說，「舊書對年度營業額貢獻越大，出版社就越穩固，」林皎宏解釋，當書成為商品，就有折舊率的問題。