This is especially so for larger works like reference books. Thus Taiwan firms are producing Chinese translations of, say, the Encyclopedia Brittannica, with rights that have been purchased, rather than having reference works explicitly for the Chinese reader.
特別是大部頭的書，不論是光復的大英百科全書或貓頭鷹的劍橋百科全書，都是向國外購買版權，並非自製。