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Mobile phone authored books top sellers in Japan
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, half of Japan’s Top 10 bestselling fiction books were composed via mobile phones. Each sold an average of 400,000 copies. This new cultural phenomenon sweeping Japan is called keitai shousetsu or mobile phone novels and it is transforming minor publishing houses into forces to be reckoned with.
These works are oftentimes written by first-time authors using a single-name pseudonym and are delivered to their young female-dominated audience via cell phone, the same medium which was used to create them. One of the most popular of these next generation books, Koizora (Love Sky) by Mika has sold over 1.2 million copies since last October.
via TechCrunch
December 6th, 2007 at 6:42 am
I was interviewing high school students about the future of Libraries when in the course of discussion about cell phones, a sophomore girl told of an experience where she was caught waiting for something and took her cell phone out and composed an essay for an assignment at school. When she got to a computer she downloaded the draft, edited it, and prepared it to turn in.
I believe schools should allow and encourage this kind of information access and creation with cell phones.