It's amazing this book came out in 1989 and to see that many of the concerns and enthusiasms on both sides of the ebook debate are still going strong, years later. In Cyberbooks the rejection and objection to the ebook concept comes not from the authors but the marketing department and distributors. The question copyright and IP control don't even enter the question. The book may have been meant as a commentary on the publishing business circa the 1980s and so it suffers from jokes falling flat and a whiff of "quaintness" that often dogs older science fiction. ( )