This essay reviews the relations between web papers and traditional newspapers. Swedish web papers in general, and the web paper of Göteborgs-Posten in particular, is the object of interest. It can be established that web papers are not a source of income. That is also the primary reason why some producers of newspapers refrains to put their editorial material for free on the web. The newspaper companies that has introduced a web paper considers that it is strategic important. There is also hope of finding ways of financing in the future. The essay describes the nature of the web paper on the basis of design, economy and other qualities that divides it from traditional news papers. News value, adjusted for the Internet, and journalistics are handled as well to elucidate how the web paper differs from traditional newspapers. The essay is summarized with a discussion about web papers as a complement/competitor to traditional news papers. Furthermore there are some propostions how to improve the web site of gp.se.