“Cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as an unworthy subgenre. But of 2007’s 10 bestselling novels, five were originally cellphone novels and were republished in book form.”

Source: nytimes.com | 1.20.08

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