Cellphone novels (keitai shosetsu), aimed primarily at young women, hit the top sellers list in Japan, see article in
The New York Times.<--
This article is almost a year old, but it was mentioned on our National Radio today, along with eBook usage in Japan. Thought it deserved a second look.
A more recent article by Dana Goodyear in
The NewYorker <--
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The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age" ~ Dana Goodyear