Well, first, lots of periodicals are going on-line. Often you can get stories well before they're actually in print. It's free, and bountiful in its offerings on topics like international news and science that often get squeezed in a general-news format. But the news feed costs your Internet provider money, so not all carry it. You can even have the news delivered to your electronic doorstep.
Home delivery is nice, but agent technology is radical.
It is transforming the news, so there aren't distinctive papers any more, just distinct individuals who read them. And there's at least one that's free. The result is a Web page with links to a variety on-line of news sources. The Bob Gazette and things like that. But they can't ever really have them, like to read on the train.