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Fay Weldon tried to write for the web and gave up (Features, May 12). She could consider applying for a place on the online MA in creative writing and new media at De Montfort University, where she would learn that reading and writing online have little to do with the conventions of fixed type and everything to do with flexible, dynamic interactivity.

Blogs are culturally and artistically important not just because of their varied content but because of the way they work. Their systems for feedback and cross-referencing enable readers to engage with a collective intelligence in ways unachievable via paper.

Books provide satisfactions that are currently more fully documented, but any implication that they are superior is short-sighted. There is a place for both print and digital.

Kate Pullinger and Sue Thomas

De Montfort University