Responses in Texts

Web documents do have the capability to contain links to response pages that allow readers to make comments on a certain work (though I haven't included one here for technical reasons). On these response pages, readers can view the responses of other readers and add their own. The responses become part of the text as well as part of the critical conversation. A response in the world of print can never really be part of the text unless the response is published with another edition of the printed text But what are the chances that readers would go through the trouble of getting a new addition of a text that simply contains responses? With hypertext on the Web, the responses are fast and ongoing.


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