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The electronic document systems industry has grown into a $100 business worldwide. Yet despite all those zeros, paper still reigns supreme. "There is no electronic version for storage as permanent as paper," says Keith Davidson, executive director of XPLOR International, a professional association for users and vendors of electronic printing and publishing tools. "In fact, the most significant information processing innovation in the last 30 years is not the PC, it's the yellow sticky Post-it note pad because it's the ultimate human interface."

The article presents information on the publication of a book "Applied Statistics, Algorithms," relevant to statistics, by the Royal Statistical Society in cooperation with the Science Research Council's Working Party on Statistical Computing. A policy statement describing the editorial policy appears in "Applied Statistics," Vol. 1. No. 1 (1968). A support paper describing the expected contents of the external specification and making recommendation for the layout of algorithms and for programming strategy will appear in the following issue.