el, 1989, pp. 116-17).
The business community, with its extensive use of microcomputers, became a natural home for desktop publishing. Corporations produce catalogs, technical manuals, annual reports, sales plans and a variety of other printed materials that incorporate text and graphics. Publishing by corporations far exceeds that of commercial book publishers, with an estimated output of 4 trillion pages a year (Gabriel, 1989, p. 115). As printer technology advances, many of the documents needed by corporations can be produced without going to an outside printing company. The Docu Tech Production Publisher by Xerox can laser print 135 pages per minute and bind them into completed documents. Although this technology is still very expensive (the Docu Tech costs $220,000), complete electronic publishing is becoming a practical reality (Roney, 1991, p. 46).
The commercial book publishing industry has also been transformed by desktop publishing. As much as 80 percent of the cost of producing a book was in the editorial/composition stage. Desktop publishing has reduced these costs drastically. Many small publishing houses that would not have been economically viable have come into the market
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