The policy of one-guideline-multiple-versions is built on the principle of deregulation, the baseline of educational reform in Taiwan over the past decade, but it has been criticized since its implementation. However, the problems resulted from the implementation of the policy more than the policy itself. Under the Grades 1-9 Curriculum Guidelines, curriculum articulation and entrance exams are thought to be the main problems of the textbook policy. To solve these problems, Taipei county and Taipei city governments plan to implement a ‘one-version’ policy. There are plenty of arguments from different camps about textbook policy, but unless out-dated concepts about textbooks are revised, the debate will be pointless. This article first analyzes the positive and negative opinions of the one-guideline-multiple-versions policy, and points out some fallacies in ‘one-version’ policy, then argues for the reconceptualization of textbooks— textbooks could be various forms of school books, the textbook is not only the text for reading, and the textbook doesn’t have to be a traditional well-organized student book. How could one textbook guide students to know the fast-changing world or enhance the development of the student mind? Only when the concept of ‘textbook’ is revised, will the meaningless dispute about one or multiple versions end, and alternative textbooks developed.