[marssaxman]

How many people still work traditional hours? How many of those people would be interested in an email news service? Seems entirely reasonable to me that the intersection might be small, and that the people who want to read the news at 6 AM would not be interested in doing so by email.

[joelberman]

I usually wake around 6:00 and check my mail. For me the best is a short summary of stories on email, say the first 4-5 lines of each item, and clickable. If a web page was customizable, that would be fine too, but as the OP says, if you are already in email it is easiest to stay in email.