Formative design evaluation of superbook
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Writing and reading hypertext: an overview
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Epilogue. Innovation, pragmaticism, and technological continuity: Vannevar Bush's memex
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The matters that really matter for hypertext usability
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Collaborative writing of text and hypertext
Hypermedia
Turning ideas into products: the Guide system
HYPERTEXT '87 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
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Some people argue that hypertext is easy to write, is hard to create by converting existing text into hypertext, and has a massive market. This paper argues the contrary. First, hypertext is hard to write. Second, automatically converting a text into hypertext is, to a first approximation, easy. Third, successful marketing of hypertext depends on having a large volume of material that is also available in paper form. These three iconoclastic statements are based on painful experience, having written a book about hypertext with our own hypertext system. To market the book it has been published on paper and converted into several popular, commercial hypertext systems. Users of the resultant products have favoured a combination of paper and hypertext.