Reading Interest

Reading is an indicator to know that a country is advanced.
It is said that our country's reading interest is poor.
It is proved by the low total amount of published books compared with that of the other advanced countries.
Why is the reading interest of our country so low?
Is it because the expensiveness of the book's price?
Is it because of the lack of various kind of books in store?
Is it because you don't have the eagerness to read?
By reading, I mean reading the educational books, not novels, magz, or comics.
Firstly, there are only 1,2, or 3 public libraries found in each city in Indonesia.
How we can read regularly? If we buy all of the books, how much must we pay?
Even in the library, the variety of books is limited and they're not up to date.
Just look Japan, they even have a library in their mall.
Secondly, although there are loads of books in the book store, will you buy the educational books?
If you celebrate your birthday what present do you want to get?
A book or a handphone?
Everyone may answer,"Only stupid people would chooses book over HP".
Doesn't book make someone smart?