The Risk of Open Hypertexts

Am is worried about "losing" readers in an open hypertext. Certainly, one of the risks of an open hypertext is that an author will provide a link from which the reader may never return. But "losing" a reader is not necessarily a failure. Since readers are constructing their own arguments via multiple authors and texts (and readers are in fact authors in this respect), Web authors should always view their works as one part of many, rather than a single stand-alone entity.

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