July 21, 2008

Top Selling books in Japan on Mobile

Posted in Mobile internet tagged books, mobile, mobile books, mobile reader, read on mobile, Technology, top mobile books, web 3.0 at 10:54 pm by mobinttechno

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.”