07.21.08
Top Selling books in Japan on Mobile
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On
Mobile Phones
Duncan Riley
With all the talk about Amazon’s Kindle, there’s a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones.
According to
the Sydney Morning Herald, mobile phone novels (keitai shousetsu) have become a publishing phenomenon in Japan, “turning middle-of-the-road publishing houses into major concerns and making their authors a small fortune in the process.”
Read the rest of the article at TechCrunch
tbellsbooks said,
July 21, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Composing books on mobile phones? Okay – I’m horrified. Just finished reading a delightful cross-cultural romance, comedy called American Fuji. (You can find it at http://www.tbellsbooks.com). Somehow, thinking of it being composed on the phone just doesn’t work for me. However, the Japanese are true forerunners of progress, so I guess we will catch up and adjust. A new publishing revolution. Didjaever wonder what we will leave for the archeologists 1,000 years from now? Books on phone?
bansai said,
May 6, 2009 at 7:37 am
i write ebooks exclusivelly for mobile phones. let me know if you want them.
bansai@net.hr
mobinttechno said,
May 6, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Will let u now, actually , they could be of much interest to me very soon. i get back to u as soon as the need arises.