The Necessity of the Existence of the Paper Periodical under the Network Environment

Through the analysis and comparison of the merits and demerits of the electronic periodical and the paper periodical, this paper points out that the electronic periodical can't completely replace the paper periodical and exists independently because of its own limitation, and in a quite long period of time, the two kinds of periodicals will co-exist and complement each other and play their function of information service commonly.