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***cellphones and smartphones as their primary computing/communication devices, are likely to be a bigger part of e-book reading in the future.***
I'm sure you're right, Steve. And this is one trend that -- unlike dedicated readers -- might well influence the way some authors write.
For instance, in Japan five of last year's top ten selling books were adapted from mobile phone novels written in bite-sized episodes of a hundred or two words a day. Poetry and flash fiction also lends itself to mobile phone reading on the hop.
Not sure I'd like to tackle War and Peace on a cellphone, but my son -- an avid reader -- goes through many a full novel on his. Cheers. Neil
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