“Landow writes that hypertext blurs the boundaries between reader and writer
and claims that, because of the nature of hypertext, the fact that the reader
has to make choices and acts upon those choices by clicking on a word or image,
the reader becomes ‘active.’”

Quote taken from Hypertext
and the Role of the Reader and Writer

Landow
argues that hypertext
demands an active reader and thus the line that distinct the reader form the
author blurs. He says that it is impossible to be a passive reader because you
are constantly bombarded by options in which you want to proceed. Not even in
the most constrained hypertexts can a reader be passive because they still
choose the way to the plot, thus determining the text that’s going to appear
before their eyes. The interactive reader incarnates the responsive reader
within an electronic work. The boundaries between creator and critic simply
vanish.

1. Coover
2. Conclusion
3. Introduction
4. What is Digital Literature?
5. The reader turns into a collaborating author
6. Interactive Fiction (IF)
7. Non-Linear story telling (Hypertext)