Tehran, Nima Afshar Naderi : Book-reading among Iranians does not have a very good situation. Most books get published with only three thousand copies. After its peak days, reading newspapers, nowadays,in Iran, has had a tangible downfall after the professional deprivation and closing of some newspapers few years ago.

Also, social books have a stagnant market these days.Except family-psycology, maritial relationships related and marketing pocket books, book selling is its lowest limit in the recent years. Bookstores and cultural centers are not very popular these days.Everything is affected by atomic energy news and reporting Iran to UN security council. Iranian news websites, also, do not react much toward the absolute cultural issues. "Sleepwalker', Reza Shokrollahi's famous cultural weblog, which is beingh updated everyday with literal-artistic comments, reports that various previously published books will not be published anymore. According to his report, many of 'Sadegh Hedayat, the famous'Blind Owl' writer, are not permitted to be published anymore.
'Book of the Year' governmental ceremmony was held last week, where no story writer recieved any award. Iran parliment has decided to increase this section's budjet for next year.
According to Roozna, a new newspaper website, part of a traditional but reformist organization, Mostafa Mastoor, auther of best selling books, such as 'Kiss God's face', has declared that until his four ready to be published books status is not clear, he will not send any new book to the book market. Still, non endowment of the book registration license is not teh only one to blame. Instead of underground books, the new generation sells newest American and Iranian movies, which are still in theaters these days with a price of forth of a dollar; while rarely books find their way into the streets. Iran's new generation is not that into books anymore, and that's the truth about the society of Iran. It is surrended by TV and satellites, while no time and chance is dedicated for media production of this generation, but that does not mean Iran's new generation is illiterate and incognizant. Internet has come to help them to stay in touch. Famous bookshops, such as "Sales" or "Vistar" have founded coffee shops to host the meetings and dialogs among the visitors in order to augment the number of books being read.The Iranian bourgeois are in need of awareness, and more than anything, they are in rush. Rather than allocating some time to read a note or an essay to be published as a book; they prefer to access to data via oral interaction, and that is exactly what immobilize them to go in depth.