Is traditional "print" lit in cyberspace?

The vast majority of what we see in cyberspace is a simulation of print text, and that includes all sorts of literature as well, at least short forms. Book-length print classics suffering as they do from the "scroll dread" that has made commercial ebooks less than successful and are only sporadically found online, Project Gutenberg, with its 12,000 ebook literary classics, notwithstanding.

That said, the breadth of print lit text that's available, especially from a critical, research, and creative point of views is voluminous in the way only cyberspace can offer.

While finding most classic literature texts will still mean a trip to the public library, a universe of critical, scholarly and academic texts are available online (naturally enough, considering the original research aspect of the internet.)

Scholars and other lovers of all things literary were among the first to embrace this "information superhighway" dynamic, sometimes taking on enormous projects via volunteer help, much like Project Gutenberg has done since 1971. Sites such as Poetry Corner and The Electronic Canterbury Tales are often the pet projects of a few true-believers who want to foster student access and understanding of their favorite art forms or literary works, melding the world of print with the world of the internet, sometimes in inventive ways. Plagiarist.com, for example, will create, for a price, downloadable ebooks containing an analysis of a poem, including author and period, bibliography, glossary and writing tips—in other words, a web-generated hypertextual printed text.
Many print classics in the public domain, especially cyberspace-compatible literary works are also lightly hypertexted, such as this hypertextual treatment of an Ezra Pound poem.

Some sites act as accessible archives such as Great Books Online, UVA American Studies@UVA Hypertexts, and Electronic Poetry Center.

Others such as Kairos (a "rhetoric, technology and pedagogy" forum), strive to "push the boundaries in academic publishing at the same time bridge the gap between print and digital publishing cultures."

Cyberspace, via hypermedia, also offers access to oral documents, such as WiredforBooks' "never-before-heard uncut radio interviews of late 20th century literary figures."

Sites will come and go, but the concept—easy accessibility to classic literature and its criticism—is no doubt is here to stay.

Print Literature via Literary E-Journals

An ever-expanding list of e-literary magazines with quality and content to rival print literature is also beginning to showcase cyberspace's potential for both hypertextual and "print text" literature. Dozens of "little" magazines have found a natural home on the world wide web, their circulation not so "little" any longer, their archival life spans now a part of cyberspace's "forever-now" dynamic. As one e-journal's tagline puts it: "never in and never out of print." (Mudlark) As long as there is a server connected to the internet, e-magazines and their contributor's work will be forever accessible.

Most online literary magazines are still very "print text"-based, works being either devoid of hypertextual aspects or designed marginally hypertextual, perhaps only to "turn the page." Nevertheless, the online access alone adds to their reading, be they from a journal's archive or from recent issues:
Vaccuuming the Dead
Four Poems/Suspension

Online "print-text" literary journals offer creative nonfiction—creative, critical or interviews via audio:
I, Traveler
Jay David Bolter
Norman Mailer

E-chapbooks:
Cafe Buffe, a musical comedy

Short-short fiction and prose poetry:
Double Room

Forgotten, overlooked classics:
Octopus' Recovery Project

Other "print-text" literary journals delight in a fusion of not only print e-literature, cyberliterature, but also guerilla poetry invention (and possibly gumballs):
GumballPoetry

As for books, online cyberlit "book" publishers continue to define what that means in cyberspace, including offering "print-on-demand" capabilities as well as online, downloadable ebooks:
Coach House Books
Alt-X
Eastgate
UBU Editions

(For more on publishing, see "How to publish cyberlit?")