The Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore/London), 1992, English text 222 pp.

Electronic text processing marks the next major shift in information technology after the development of the printed book. It promises (or threatens) to produce effects on our culture, particularly on our literature, education, criticism, and scholarschip, just as radical as those produced by Gutenberg's movable type.

Advanced computer technology for storing and retrieving information - and the electronic "hypertext" of words and images it makes possible - is changing both the experience of reading and, according to some scholars, the very nature of what is read. In `Hypertext' George Landow explores what is at once a radically new information technolgy, a revolutianary mode of publication,and a highly interactive form of electronic text.