In Taipei City, private publishers have leapt in to fight for a share of the 30,000-pupil market. They have even under-priced the NICT texts, so that sales of the "national edition" textbooks have been weak in the capital.
以台北市來說，民間出版商競相搶奪三萬名學生的市場，甚至訂出比國立編譯館還低的價格，使得國立編譯館的「國編本」，在首善之都銷售量普遍不佳。