Clearly it is going to take a vastly new and different commitment from both the writer and reader. I'll discuss this argument continuing with the writer. Hypertext involves rapidly changing technology to convey ideas or thoughts to readers. As mentioned above, this involves hypermedia. Thus, the writer is going to have to make a new commitment in the area of technology in order to use hypertext.
Readers benefit from the flexibility of hypertext as well.
The advantages of hypertext were discussed earlier when we highlighted some of arguments made by Bolter. Just as rules and an organized order no longer binds writers, neither are readers. Instead, readers of hypertext are given an opportunity to determine the structure of the text and in a sense become their own authors. The latter, of course, depends on the reader to become a co-author and not just a browser or user of the hypertext. In a sense, the advantage and disadvantage of reading hypertext overlap.