What is an electronic text?

I came across a thoughtful blog entry responding to somethng I wrote with Ian Lancashire about electronic texts and text analysis in WRT: Writer Response Theory ª Forms of Electronic Texts.

The author, Christy Dena, points out the focus on material characteristics (that an e-text is an electronic version of a written work etc.) and inconsistencies. To be honest I wasn’t trying to come up with a typology with a “continuity of variable.” I was trying to describe the variety of things we call e-texts. Time for a better definition and asking whether we want to use “electronic text” for anything that can be read and has/had an electronic form.