As Kang Ho Publishing's Carrie Chen points out, because the NICT is a government organization, the resources it requires to publish textbooks, from office space to personnel costs, are all government-provided. The biggest cost for NICT-published texts lies in the printing. Private publishers, on the other hand, have to take on all the expenses themselves, thus resulting in relatively higher production costs.
康和出版公司副理陳寶香指出，國立編譯館屬於公家單位，在編教科書時運用的各種資源，如辦公地點、編輯人事費等都是公有的，如此編出來的教科書，最大成本在印製費，而民間的各項支出均要自己負擔，相對成本當然提高。