Cell Phone Novel Fad In Japan
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A new market for publishers have arised in the form of novels written from cell phones in Japan. Social networking sites like Mobage-town allows users to upload single sentences to form stories. Cell phone novel or keitai shosetsu emerged in Japan nearly a decade ago and this culture is also spreading to other countries. |
The first and largest mobile novel portal in Japan, Magic Island has a million titles with some 3.5 billion monthly visitors and six million registered users. Many authors use pen names and most novels center around themes that are considered taboo in the Japanese society such as sex, pregnancy, abortion, rape and others.
However, keitai shosetsu which rapidly rise to mass popularity is slowly declining which shows that it could be just another teenage fad.
Source: CNN
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