A lot of Indonesian students don’t like to read - as Americans

“They don’t like to read!”, that’s what you hear a lot of times, when people discuss about student’s behavior. But it seems, that at least this is not an Indonesian phenomenon alone:

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

This is what Steve Jobs said in an New York Times interview (referring to the digital book reading devices such as the new Kindle by Amazon).
Only few people are reading books nowadays, so what do they read? How do they access information?
A good guess might be, through New Media like the Internet or -the not so new media- TV/Radio. Of course there are still the Newspapers to convey the latest information, but are all these media equal to reading a -good- book?
What’s your opinion on this?

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