Note: Amos Bokros is a veteran TeleRead volunteer now working as a teacher in an adult vocational school in Florida. You can reach him here. Bill Stern, a forty-something substitute teacher, looked at his watch; it was now 10:30 a.m. He slammed a table in frustration. He owed $87 to his optometrist, $69 to the power company, $34 to... He didn't notice that the framed photograph of his deceased wife had just fallen to the floor. He was tired of waiting for a work call. He didn't have a cell phone; he could hardly afford his cluttered studio apartment. It had a...

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Amos Bokros, author of the article below, is TeleRead's Southeastern Coordinator. Also check out his essay on e-books for people with reading disabilities. - DR Ben Bova's Cyberbooks is a science-fiction novel that gives TeleRead supporters--and other e-book boosters--some concrete lessons in how to convince the public of the benefits. This 13-year-old satire is eerily on target.Cyberbooks is about an MIT software engineer by the name of Carl Lewis who invents the first electronic book. Carl is a naive idealist, and he thinks his invention will revolutionize the publishing industry and bring enormous benefits to all mankind. He...

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