In Hypetext 3.0, George Landow dedicates only a short chapter to the subject of authoriship and collaboration. He addresses, only apprehensively, the feelings "some readers" would have if his book were written completely in hypertextual form, "My brief description of how I would go about producing this text were I writing it in something like a complete hypertext environment might trouble some readers because it suggests that I have sacrificed a certain about of authorial control, ceding some of it to the reader" (135). That is a very brief explanation about why his book is not written in hypertext, considering that the entire 436-page book is dedicated to hypertext! Clearly, it is Landow who is uncomfortable with his role as the author while writing in hypertext, and thus, he chose to publish three editions of a traditionally printed book.
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