The Benefits and Detriments of Electronic Literature

How is electronic literature different from print literature?

Difference

1. Need electronic reading devices

2. Used many hyperlinks in the website

3. We can revise something even though it has already been published.

4. Used to a lot of digital images to match certain texts; combined with digital arts

5. Used code to make the website such as CSS to change the size of texts.

Benefits:

1.    Easy to preserve

2.    Production cost is low

3.    The transmission is wider

4.    More convenient to revise

5.    Easy to search information

6.    Larger capacity of information storage

Detriments / Limitations

1.    Higher technology requirements

2.    IPR protection

3.    Read Habit

4.    Lower creditability