My View on Electronic Literature

It was once thought that electronic literature would be hypertext essays. Do you think is true? Why or why not?

No, it is not true. Except hypertext essays, electronic literature also could be other formats, such as hypertext information.

Hypertext information could provide more explanation and information by hypertext, which is convenience for readers to capture more knowledge from essays. For example, we can click author’s name to know the introduction of the author. These explanation and information complete the essay to be perfect.

What does electronic literature look like now?

Electronic literature must has a website. And it is allowed that readers could comment its disseminating knowledge online. With the changing world, electronic literature has a bright future to develop.

How is it different from print literature?

Benefits:

Electronic literature is not printed. And it is cheaper much cheaper than print literature. Once you have technological tools, you can access whatever electronic literature you want. Therefore, it is very easy to access electronic literature.

Detriments:

Electronic literature has less value than print literature, because we don’t own electronic literature. It is disseminating knowledge online, so electronic literature belongs to everybody who can access it. Moreover, print literature is real exist so that it has permanence ownership. You own it forever.