The bottom line: In three months the book sold 100,000 copies. Thinking in the long term So bestsellers are few and far between, while no-sellers flood the warehouses. Commenting on the "bad karma" generated by the relentless outpouring of books from the publishing industry, Yin Ti points out that having only bestsellers or no-sellers would be as abnormal as a society having only very rich people and extremely poor people.
只要長銷，不要滯銷暢銷書一本難求，滯銷書又氾濫倉庫，對於出版界拚命出書造成的「惡果」，爾雅出版社負責人隱地就指出，出版品不暢銷就滯銷，就像社會上只有富人與窮人，總是不太正常。