We've discussed the Japanese innovation to publish books on mobile phones - and that already today, five of the ten best-selling books in Japan were originally released as mobile phone books (and several were originally written on mobile phones, with the cryptic SMS text messaging grammar, spelling and style). We've had a lot of interest in this. So a good friend of ours, Tim Harrap, noticed that The Independent newspaper wrote a nice article about the phenomenon, and it has a web version to the story, entitled Japanese Embrace the Mobile Phone Novel. Thanks for the link, Tim !
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It is really nice to know that books are coming into the mobile phone. I think, mobile phone would be one of the most exciting medium of reading books. Mobile phone has already been a part of our life in most of the countries of the world. It is really a praiseworthy initiative that the popular books of Japan are now coming into mobile phone version. I hope, the trend will gradually increase around the world.
Thank you for your excellent article.
Posted by: Biplob Kishore Deb | February 11, 2008 at 07:50 PM
This is simply brilliant! I didn't know this is how it works now. Very informative post.
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