If hypertext appeals to him, he may pursue other hypertext stories. If he hates it, the relationship stops there, unless he is forced to read it. If the reader is involved in a hypertext class, he may grow to like hypertext as the child may have grown to enjoy books. The drawback of course is that not everyone has the opportunity to experience a hypertext class. Michael Joyce's hyperfiction Afternoon is a critically acclaimed piece of hypertext.
Dinner theatre is a type of play where actors act out, for example, a murder scene.
Like hypertext, dinner theatre requires audience interaction, where the audience can influence who the murderer will be and the ending. Dinner theatre will never be compared to a Shakespearean play. It seems that hypertext will have a similar fate. Online access requires a machine that is extremely expensive. Even though an increase in technological development has allowed the cost of computers to be a fraction of what they were ten years ago, the cost is still out of reach for those who live below the poverty line.