The newspapers were hardly getting used to the news being telecast on the television, when all of a sudden the advent of the internet brought an essential blow to the newspaper industry. A lot of the newspapers have not been able to withstand the onslaught of the web and also have been forced into closure. Let us first see the basic distinction among the newspapers and e-news.

The advantages of online news are mainly for the readers. Some of these advantages are as follows.

The e-news is a lot faster than the newspapers. The moment something happens in almost any involved in the world it gets published on the web within seconds. In case of newspapers there is a specific time period limit for just about any news to be reported in any particular newspaper. Suppose the newspaper goes for printing at midnight, anything that happens after midnight is going to most probably get published the next day. In these sorts of situation the newspaper offers stale news to the readers who have already accessed the online news.

Any newspaper get published once, twice or maximum thrice a day. Conversely e-news usually gets updated several times in twenty four hours.

If one has accesses to the web, one doesn't have to wait for the delivery man to deliver the newspaper.

The online news has some disadvantages but those are mainly for the newspaper publishers. The rates of subscriptions and ads are greatly reduced in case of online unique news Indonesia. This implies that as the number of readers of online news increases the revenue generation of the newspaper publisher is falling drastically.

You'll find only some ways that the newspapers can resort to for surviving the blow of the e-news. Some of the newspapers charge subscription to the readers that like to read more than what will be offered for free. There is simply a link for "more" that may be activated and operational after paying some subscription charges. If you do not pay the subscription the "more" link cannot be activated.

A lot of the newspaper publishers have realized that if they want the newspaper to survive they will publish the newspaper in print and online on the web.