Abstract
The advent of digital technologies has also inclined the world to shift from traditional booksand textbooks to digital texts. In line with this development, it becomes inevitable to explorethe features of the digital text. The current research study aims to explore the impact andinfluence of digital text on the traditional notions of fixity and authorship, along withitsevolution into the new hypertext forms. Besides, it also aims to explore the elements oflinearity, textual patterns and the creative potential in the digital text. Therefore, thisresearch study critically delineates the functionality of the digital text by taking into account aqualitative research methodology, with a purposive sampling technique, in a bidtoaccomplish the objectives. This research is fundamentally a critical review of digital textschosen for this study, and is guided by the theories given by Jannet Murray (1997) and MarryLauren Ryan (2000). The research concludes that digital text has turned the tables for thetraditional printed texts, as it challenges the notions of fixity, allows readers to partake inthemeanings making process, has a creative potential, and proves to be conducive to dif erentpatterns and forms of text forms and hypertexts.