Please note that the article was written before I had used the Web, and I have not updated it substantially. When discussing the electronic newspaper of the future, people often concentrate on technological issues such as the method of delivery, hardware and security, and how they're going to integrate the advertising. What is rarely talked about is how it will look and how readers will interact with it. Among all the attention given to data highways, we hear very little about what shape a newspaper might take when it is traveling on them. If you think you can dump the contents of today's edition onto the network and win subscribers, you're wrong.
Paper is paper.
A screen is something else. It isn't only that you can do different things on a screen. You must . Text on a screen is not newsprint, not a magazine, not a book. Think about length restrictions.