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+\centerline{\bf Pira's Precursor}
+\noindent
+Pira (the Research Association for the
+Paper \&\ Board, Printing, and
+Packaging Industries)
+is about to start publication of `Commentary'
+which will cover the area of `Desktop Publishing'.
+
+They have already published a `Precursor Issue',
+which made quite interesting reading. Especially
+relevant to \TeX\ was their definition of desktop publishing, namely:
+``any system which allows someone --- using a desktop
+terminal --- to produce a document of typeset or near-typeset quality\dots
+It can run on a microcomputer or a large mainframe.''
+
+Less agreeable is the enormous sums which it will
+take to receive this twice quarterly (I think that means 8 times a year)
+publication. First-year subscription is {\it\$}350, although members of
+Pira are elegible for a discount of {\it\$}70, making it a mere {\it\$}280.
+I used to have this weird idea that electronic publication might
+make things cheaper. Silly me. It therefore comes as no real surprise
+that ``The contents of Pira Desktop Publishing Commentary may not be
+reproduced by any means without the prior permission of the publisher in
+writing''. I am relieved that I merely quote from the Precursor Issue,
+and not the real thing. It is rather interesting how the idea of
+emulating the Seybold Report mobilises money-spinning ideas.