Why we read newspapers (or, for that matter, pretty much anything)

Reminded by Dan Kennedy, I decided to give the Boston Globe's electronic newspaper, Globe Reader, a try.  It's free for print subscribers. (We still have Sunday delivery.) The Globe Reader is a separate product from the Globe's Electronic Edition;The Telegram, as you may know, has something similar. Both sites charge extra, even for print subscribers.
The reading experience is pretty good, emulating the experience of flipping through print pages as well as one could expect.
One aspect, however, is a game-stopper. There doesn't seem to be a way to send a link to a friend, post it in blog, or otherwise bookmark a specific article. This applies to the Globe Reader and, as best as I can tell, to the electronic editions of the Telegram and Globe.
As a result, when I see a report that EMC is expanding its presence in North Carolina and I'd like to send that article to current EMC employees and to friends in North Carolina,

well, I think that I have to go to the Globe web site.

Reading something interesting in isolation is never as good as reading something interesting and being able to share it.