Cyberbooks - Ben Bova

Walls have ears in the Synthoil Tower. And in the penthouse suite at its top, multinational Tarantula Enterprises have got wind of a gadget that will revolutionise the publishing industry. 

Twenty floors below, lovely Lori Tashkajian is the dispirited young editor at Bunker Books, a notoriously ruthless New York publisher. So her gentle friend, Carl Lewis, a brilliant designer of electronic software with an invention to transform the world, is a man on whom she is pinning all her hopes...

But oddly, the brainchild dubbed Cyberbooks has a very mixed reception. Odder still, a surprising number of old and retired New Yorkers are inexplicably being murdered in the streets...