There are many different theories and ideas, some from laymen, and others from theorists concerning this wonderment.
Some theorists say that electronic literature is in fact literary, it is textual and it can be read.
To follow the above definition, an obvious statement which includes hypertext into the literary world is that literature usually seems to be anything written. Although electronic literature is written in a different way, with links, arrows, and movement, it is still written or created and therefore should be allowed into the world of the literary. The author of What is 'Literary' does not have a clear scope as to whether or not hypertext is literary. It is an extremely different, creative way of writing. Never before has there been an actual book printed on a screen where the reader gets to flip quickly through pages or stagger their way through.