Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol. 58, March 2011, pp. 55-62 E-newspapers and e-news services in the electronic age: an appraisal K. C. Panda 1 and Dillip K Swain 2 1Dean (Faculty of Arts), Professor& Head, PG Department of Library and Information Science, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla-768019, Sambalpur, Odisha, E-mail:
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[email protected] Attempts to make the user community aware of e-news and e-news services offered by different e-news channels all around the world. Provides a brief discussion of history and developments of e-news services, newspaper websites and latent advantages of e-news in the electronic era. Employs literature survey method to unfold the latest trends of e-news industry and finds that, though e-news services provide immense opportunity to the readers and simultaneous access at infinite points and reading at ones convenience, still a few key technical challenges like, navigational support, hyper linking, and designing of e-newspapers needs to be properly taken care of and tackled with. Concludes with the recommendation that information professionals should take steps to increase the usage of e-newspapers by their intended audience. Introduction • E-news via e-devices – is an electronic newspaper service supported by e-paper A newspaper plays an important role in disseminating technology (i.e. an e-reader, such as Amazon current information and events and keeps its readers Kindle), e.g. Hindustan Times on Kindle up-to-date. The electronic newspaper or e-newspaper is a self-contained, reusable and refreshable version of By the late 1990s the availability of news via 24-hour a traditional newspaper that acquires and holds television channels and then the Internet posed an information electronically.