Want to see a current version? Head over to my fav european site at http://www.elpais.es/ and look at the right hand column just below the soccer results. You'll see a button that says 24HORAS. click it an voila, a 15-page-ish PDF ready to print with up to the minute news. Sure, it ain't much to look at, but you can follow it, with clear headlines, subheds and photos (pulled straight in from the wires, I'd imagine). Interesting stuff.

Good ojos, Josh! Thanks!

PDF, come on behave. When I first heard about this I thought what a good idea but now it's a PDF I'm thinking why can't they make their print style sheet look like that. Very disappointed.

Looks good, will be dead useful when I'm travelling and can't find an international edition. Somehow I don't really enjoy newspaper websites but I like PDFs slightly better.

fast design easy to read, I like, also it is in Spanish, me gusta mucho!!!

cmjtv2: It's probably a image-control thing. While CSS works most of the time, this is being billed as another edition of the Guardian. They're not selling newspapers; they're selling experiences. And the Guardian Experience can really only be felt if they can ensure that their content looks exactly the way they intended it to, and the best way to do I would argue is a PDF.

I think they should have an idea close to this for the web, a quick read page that has briefs, photos, charts, etc, but designed specifically for, say, a Firefox sidebar. Links to the stories, tiny ad, whatever. Even if the links aren't clicked, the content is being read on-site without having to deal with an aggregator stealing away readers with competitors' stories.

More editons just means more tailoring for an audience that's too wide to cast just one net. The effort to produce this is minimal – and in all fairness, probably a minimal in innovation; it's a webpage you print instead of clicking refresh. But if you can capture 100 readers, readers just like Ms. Horley above who know/love the newspaper but can't stand the website but hate getting news a day late, then you've made newspapers (in whatever format they take in 10 years) relevant with two clicks of a mouse. Just think how easy that will be with e-paper + wifi. I always think back to the Minority Report newspaper with breaking news updates.

Bohling: Great memory. I think I was too overwhelmed by the awesomeness that is elpais.es to remember how to function aftwards, much less remember that G24 is behind the times.