According to Chen Ying-ching, the main challenge that the Internet poses to publishers is that print works that offer search capabilities and have limited shelf life will gradually be eclipsed by online services. These include traditional types of works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, stock analyses, and so forth.
據陳穎青觀察，網路目前對出版業的衝擊主要是：檢索功能、強調資訊時效的紙書，將逐漸被網路服務所淘汰，如傳統的百科全書、字典、股市分析等等。