Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

[jeffreyab]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is a NY Times article on how cellphone novels, mostly written by young women on cellphones, have come to dominate the bestsellers lists in Japan, albeit in paper form.

The dawn of a new media, a new genre and a new HUGO category.

Comments

[scottij.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm waiting for the first scandal where it turns out some big-selling novel wasn't *really* written on the author's cellphone, they just said it was to help sales. (And people forget to talk about whether the book was any good regardless.)