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When you practically depend on your mobile phone, it doesn’t surprises that you’ll actually start reading novels on it. That’s exactly what young Japanese people are doing nowadays…
Apparently amateur writers in the Land of the rising Sun have found a new convenient medium — the so called mobile novel — in which to loose their creative energies. Unlike with “standard, classic editions,” writers of mobile novels get instant feedback from their readers. That encourages them to keep going or even to (frequently) change stories to suit readers.
For instance, the 27-year-old women who writes under pseudonym “Chaco” wrote a sad love story called “What the Angel Gave Me”, which became so popular that she was getting 25,000 unique online visitors a day to her site. Naturally, she felt pressured to update her novel and respond to comments every day to keep readers happy…
The story goes on, and I’m sure Chaco is not the only one struggling to keep up with its readers’ demands. I just wonder will this remain the yet another Japan-only phenomenon, or we’ll see more people using their cellphones to type full-length books…
[Via: textually.org, image from teleread.org]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
