As we have already observed, scholarly books offer an obvious example of explicit hypertextuality in nonelectronic form. Take Joyce's Ulysses as an example. Again, a hypertext presentation of the novel links this section not only to the kinds of materials mentioned but also to other works in Joyce's career, critical commentary, and textual variants. Hypertext here permits one to make explicit, though not necessarily intrusive, the linked materials that an educated reader perceives surrounding it. The most salient effect of this strategic change is to free the text from psychological, sociological, and historical determinisms, opening it up to an apparently infinite play of relationships.
Print is intertextual too.
A brief argument that hypertext is qualitatively different on the Web. A somewhat different take on media effects. A background note.