NTU Press continues to play a leadership role in organizing collaborative ventures among Taiwan's leading national university publishers. Most recently, NTU press headed a consortium of national university presses in jointly showcasing their works at this year's Taipei International Book Exhibition, which took place at the Taipei World Trade Center during February 11-16.

This marks the third consecutive year that NTU Press has organized the Joint Exhibition of National University Presses at Taiwan's premier international book fair. As in years past, NTU was joined by the university publishers of National Sun Yat-sen University, National Central University, National Chiao Tung University, National Chengchi University, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei National University of the Arts, and National Taiwan Normal University. This year, the publishers of National Chung Hsing University and National Cheng Kung University also joined the joint exhibition as featured guests.

Together the ten university publishers showcased nearly 3,000 publications during the six day book fair. They also held 26 forums and lectures aimed at promoting direct interaction between the academic community and the general public.

The publishers also held their first joint press conference ahead of the book fair. During the press conference, NTU President Pan-Chyr Yang pointed out that, as an inheritor of traditional Chinese script, Taiwan enjoys an advantage in understanding the culture, politics, and history of the Chinese speaking world. Consequently, publishers in Taiwan bear an obligation to transfer this knowledge to the world.

During the conference, Minister of Education Se-Hwa Wu spoke of the ministry's efforts to encourage universities to publish books that share their academic research with society, noting that the ministry recently established the Humanities and Social Sciences Education Project and devised plans to expand its financial support for university publishers.

Meanwhile, NTU Press Director Jieh Hsiang refuted the misconception that universities publish only abstruse books, noting that a number of NTU Press publications have performed strongly on the popular market. He also called on more university publishers to join the NTU-led consortium.