Wednesday, January 30

Japanese Best Sellers go Cellular


In Tokoyo, Japan. Their last years best selling novels have been cell phone novels. Five were originally cellphone novels, mostly love stories written in the short sentences characteristic of text messaging but containing little of the plotting or character development found in traditional novels. Cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of sales that some many people only dream of. A 21 year old girl Rin, recently used her cellphone to create a novel and is now thurned in a best selling novel. After cellphone readers voted her novel No. 1 in one ranking, her story of the ragic love between two childhood friends was turned into a 142-page hardcover book last year.As the population of people who had cellphones grew, cellphones had been an integral part of their life starting from high school. They punched out text messages with their thumbs with blinding speed, and used expressions and emoticons, like smilies and musical notes, whose nuances were lost on anyone over the age of 25.

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