Online newspapers going local

http://news.google.com.au/

On-line newspapers are about to get better still! There are now trialling local versions of their News service for Australia.

You can check out here the beta version of the Australian version of Google News Australia

But clearly this is going to be another threat to our main product the printed newspapers.

Still it will probably only have some affect as studies still show the main stumbling block on-line papers is that it is much more comfortable for a person to read a printed newspaper then one on-line. The problem is that it is getting more convenient and easy to get one on-line.