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Keitai Shousetsu: Stories on your cell phone 3 Dec 2007
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, half of Japan's top-ten best-selling fiction books were composed on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. These works sold an average of 400,000 copies prompting president of Goma Books, Masayoshi Yoshino, "to establish this not simply as a fad, but as a new kind of culture".
The books depict tales of teen romance, sex, drugs and other adolescent interests as a series of clipped one-liners, emoticons and spaces (used to show what a character is thinking), all of which can be read easily on a mobile phone. (Scene and character development are notably missing). Mobile phone novels - or "keitai shousetsu" as they are known in Japan - may soon reach the bestseller lists outside Japan and provide inspiration for new channels of expression in the West.
[via Captology Notebook]
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canadian pharmacy 14 Mar 2008 09:09 PM
Imagine how the secret services could benefit from this: clip together all the text message they've intercepted during the years and publish! Bang! Instant succes. Tales of romance, everyday routine, maybe a bit of violence, drugs, murders, some spying stuff maybe and then a compilation of our pictures and clips taken with mobile camera. Buy the book and get the dvd free! Ok, maybe I let my imagination slide a bit, still they'd make a fortune.
okonomiyaki 10 Dec 2008 03:42 AM
lol. thats an interesting thought (to the comment before). keitai shousetsu are really cool.. i write novels myself, and short novels on cellphone would b such an awesome way of publishing, new style literature..
i wonder if itll ever be a fad in north america... our mobile phone culture isnt as advanced and developed. only recently have more phones ben able to access internet through wifi etc. how long will it take before this gets started here
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